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Graphic novelist, illustrator and children's book author, best known for her autobiographic novel "Persepolis" (2000), which was adapted into the movie Persepolis (2007).

Although her parents sent her to Vienna to flee the Iranian regime in 1984, she later returned to Tehran for college.

Lives in the Marais district of Paris with her Swedish husband.

Writes an illustrated column in "The New York Times" Op-Ed section.

Her mother's a great-granddaughter of Nasser-al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 to 1896.

Describes her parents as "caviar leftists".

Studied illustration at the Strasburg School of Decorative Arts.

Attended the Lycée Français in Tehran until the Iranian Revolution.

Born to Ebi and Taji Satrapi, prosperous social idealists, supporting their only child's devotion to independence, but decided to remain in Iran themselves.

Her Paris apartment is described a mosaic of Middle Eastern and Western culture.

Was a big fan of Kim Wilde and Michael Jackson in her youth.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

Personal Quotes

On her famous ancestor Nasser-al-Din-Shah: "You have to know the kings of the Quajar dynasty, they had hundreds of wives. They made thousands of kids. If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, 10-15,000 princes and princesses. There's nothing extremely special about that."

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

I always liked the story: They told Adam not to eat the apple, and the first thing Eve did was eat the apple. So this is Eve's fault. I mean, did Adam have a brain or not? He could say, "I won't eat the apple," but it's Eve's fault. And human civilization is based on that. It's our fault.

...unfortunately you know, most of the people, they consider animation much like comedies, as a genre. It's not a genre. It's just a medium.