Work · Graphic novel · 2000–2003

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi, writer and artist

Publisher: L'Association
Units: 38 titled chapters across 2 English-collected volumes (originally 4 French volumes)

An autobiographical black-and-white memoir of growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, then coming of age in exile in Vienna and back in Iran. Published in French by L'Association as four volumes between 2000 and 2003; collected in English by Pantheon Books as Persepolis (2003) and Persepolis 2 (2004), and later as the omnibus The Complete Persepolis (2007).

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Graphic novel 2000–2003 → Film 2007 · Direct adaptationPersepolisMarjane Satrapi co-directs the animated adaptation of her own memoir. Of the book's 38 chapters, 29 reach the screen, including Uncle Anoosh's execution and Marjane's homelessness in Vienna. The maid Mehri's storyline is cut, and the film is framed as a single day's flashback at Orly Airport.82composite · editorial

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