Marjane Satrapi She is a filmmaker, cartoonist, painter and internationally recognized symbol of fight for women's freedom. She was the last winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, delivered last October. Today birthday and we celebrate by taking a look at some of his most relevant works.
Marjane Satrapi
Born on November 22, 1969 in Rasht (Iran), in a well-off and progressive family. Due to the complicated political situation in his country in the years after the 1980 revolution, he left for Vienna to continue his secondary education studies. Upon his return he enrolled in Fine Arts at the University of Tehran and obtained a Master in Visual CommunicationIn 1994 he moved to French, where he settled and currently resides. His first vocation was to be a graphic designer, but he began illustrating children's story books.
Contact members of the L´Association collective It marked a turning point in his life and career in general when he was asked to turn his childhood and teenage memories into a comic book. The result was Persepolis, the first volume of which, published in 2000, won the “Coup de coeur” award for best new author at the Angoulême Film Festival. The second volume won him the Best Screenplay Award at the same festival, and the third and fourth volumes brought him international acclaim.
From there, her name and what it represents, both for the very small group of female comic artists and for the political and combative activism towards a country dominated by machismo like Iran, they have become synonym of admiration and recognition.
Marjane Satrapi — Book Selection
The sigh
We begin this review with this story of a merchant that, when he returned from his long trips, he always brought them many gifts to his three daughters. He loved them madly, but one day he could not bring beautiful Rosa what she most wanted: a blue bean seed.
With a surprising visual tone and a sense of humor suitable for all audiences, in this title we find a unforgettable lesson on sacrifice, hope and lost and found loves.
Monsters are afraid of the moon
An illustrated children's book starring María, a girl who lives happily except when she goes to sleep, because some monsters They appear every night to bother her. So, to get them to leave her alone, Maria decides bring down the moon from the sky and put it in his room, so that its light will drive away the monsters. But what he doesn't know is that by doing that he will cause the total chaos in the city, because all the cats They are left in the dark and can't see anything. And as they start to trip over everything and hurt themselves, wheel They take advantage of the opportunity to take on the city! So something will have to be done to solve such a big mess.
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi's great milestone tells us the story Iranian Islamic Revolution as seen through the eyes of a child, who is stunned by the profound change in her country and her family, while she must learn to wear the veil. Very personal and deeply political, this autobiographical story examines what it means to grow up in an environment of war and political repression.
The huge success led to its adaptation to the big screen, by the author herself and comic book artist Vincent Paronnaud. This film version was also a huge success with the public and critics, winning the Critics' Prize at Cannes 2007 and the César Award 2008 for best adapted screenplay, in addition to being Nominated for Best Animated Film at the 2008 Oscars.
Woman Life Freedom
Volume graphic nonfiction collective commemorating the beginning of the veil revolution in Iran, marked by a date, that of September 16, 2022, when Mahsa Amini He succumbed to the beatings inflicted by the morality police for not wearing that item of clothing properly.
To recount this pivotal event, the author brought together three specialists: political scientist Farid Vahid, reporter Jean-Pierre Perrin and historian Abbas Milani, along with seventeen of the best comic book talents.
Chicken with plums
We finish with another of the most famous titles that is set in Tehran in 1958. Its protagonist is Nasser Ali Khan, a passionate musician whose wife, after a heated argument, has broken his tar. As it is an irreplaceable instrument, Naser's affliction is such that he decides don't get out of bed until death takes him. He won't even get up to eat his favorite dish: chicken with plums. In the eight days that pass, his family will visit him.dreams, geniuses, premonitions and all kinds of memories.
In 2011 a film version directed by the author herself, who also wrote the script.