While her husband, noted Kannada writer and journalist P. Lankesh, resigned as a professor and took to making films and producing plays, Indira Lankesh supported him by selling sarees from her house
Satrapi's autobiographical novel was born from her experiences of Iran's Islamic revolution and war with Iraq.
Known for her graphic novel ‘Persepolis,’ Iranian-French artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56.
Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, renowned for her graphic novel and film Persepolis, has died aged 56, a year after the passing of “the love of her life”, a member of her close circle said on Thursday. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” they said in a statement. Born in 1969 in Rasht in northern Iran, Satrapi arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006. An...
The French-Iranian author and illustrator was known for her graphic novel series and Oscar-nominated film.