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Marjane Satrapi The Kratz Center for Creative Writing is pleased to welcome the fall 2006 guest lecturer, Marjane Satrapi, the best-selling author of PERSEPOLIS and one of the most innovative graphic novelists of our time. Marjane Satrapi will give a reading on Wednesday November 1, 2006 At 8:00 PM In the Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher College This event is free and open to the public. Advance reservations may be made by calling 410-337-6154 Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, on the edge of the Caspian Sea. She is part Azerbaijani, part Turkmen, part Muslim, part Zoroastrian/Iranian and she grew up in Tehran, where she studied at the lycée français before leaving for Vienna and Strasbourg to study Decorative Arts. In 1997, Satrapi moved to Paris, where she met Christophe Blain, who brought her into l’Atelier des Vosges, home to many of France’s celebrated "new wave" of comic book artists. There, she regaled her fellow artists with amazing stories of her family—stories of dethroned emperors, suicidal uncles, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution—in short, the details of daily life in contemporary Iran. After listening to her stories and seeing her drawings, they kept asking why she was waiting to put her life in the pages of a comic book. Satrapi’s best-selling graphic novel PERSEPOLIS tells the story of Marjane Satrapi’s youth in Iran in the 1970s and 80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. It is a book about a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary—beset by the unthinkable, but buffered by an extraordinary and loving family. PERSEPOLIS was published in four volumes in France, where it met with enormous critical acclaim, garnered comparisons to Art Spiegelman’s MAUS, and won several prestigious comic book awards (Prix Alph’art Coup de Coeur at Angoulême, Prix du Lion in Belgium, Prix Alph’art du meilleur scénario, and the Prix France Info). PERSEPOLIS has been translated into German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, among other languages. The work is published as two volumes in the United States: PERSEPOLIS and PERSEPOLIS 2. Marjane Satrapi’s other books include EMBROIDERIES and CHICKEN AND PLUMS (forthcoming in the fall of 2006), as well as several children’s books. Marjane Satrapi lives in Paris, where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines. She is at work on an animated film adaptation of PERSEPOLIS. ••• Praise for Marjane Satrapi’s PERSEPOLIS: "You've never seen anything like PERSEPOLIS — Marjane Satrapi may have given us a new genre." — Gloria Steinem "A mighty achievement [and] inspiring coming-of-age story." — USA Today
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