Marjane Satrapi is gone. They say she died of a broken heart...at 56.
She was the author of the great graphic novel Persepolis, about her childhood in Iran, filled with bleak humor, which also criticised the regime and made a plea for women there (and anywhere). That was made in a feature animated film in black and white (like the novel), co-directed with Vincent Paronnaud. Persepolis was ipart of Cannes Competition in 2007, it won ex-aqueo the Grand Prix and later on she was nominted for an Oscar, actually the first woman director to be nominated in the animated feature category.
She continued directing with Poulet aux prunes, The Voices, Radioactive and Paradis Paris.
statement:
“Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” members of her family said in a statement sent to Afp. Ripa, a Swedish producer, actor, and screenwriter, died on April 8, 2025. A series of posts on Satrapi’s Instagram page in the weeks before her death spelled out the message: “For I Lost the love of my life.”
Hollywood Reporter obit here.
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