![]() In 2000 she published the four volumes of Persepolis in French, which was then published in English in two volumes in 20. Marjane then returned to Europe and attended school in Strasbourg to study Decorative Arts. ![]() During this time she got married but the marriage was short-lived and the couple divorced within three years after graduating, Marjane worked for a short time as an illustrator for an economics magazine. ![]() Returning to Iran after the end of the Iran-Iraq War, Marjane attended a masters program in the School of Fine Arts in Tehran Islamic Azad University until 1994. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. As a teenager, Marjane was sent by her family to a French school Vienna in 1984. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic memoir about Satrapi’s experiences growing up in Tehran, Iran before and after the revolution in 1979. Persepolis is Satrapi’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Her family was highly educated and modern in its outlook, which put it in a difficult position when the Revolution that overthrew the American-backed Shah of Iran ultimately resulted in the establishment of a repressively conservative Islamic Republic. Born in Rasht, Iran, Marjane grew up going to French language schools in Tehran. ![]()
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