Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi dies at 56

Satrapi died reportedly of grief following her husband Mattias Ripa's death one year prior; her work documented the suffering of Iranian citizens under authoritarian rule.

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian artist who transformed personal exile and political rupture into universal testimony, died on June 4 at 56, reportedly of grief following the loss of her husband. Her graphic memoir Persepolis gave the world a child's-eye view of revolution — not as history, but as the slow theft of ordinary life — and she spent the decades that followed refusing to let that theft go unwitnessed. In her art, her protests, and even her refusals, she insisted that conscience and creativity are not separate callings.

Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi dies at 56

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