Persepolis Creator Marjane Satrapi Dies at 56
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The literary world is mourning the loss of Persepolisauthor Marjane Satrapi, who passed away at just 56 years old this week. Satrapi was best known as a pioneering graphic memoirist, who chose the comic medium to tell her story of survival, and rebellion, during the early days of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.