Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi was an Iranian and French graphic novelist, film director, and children's book author, best known for the memoir Persepolis, which she later co-directed as an animated film. Her graphic novel Chicken with Plums follows a tar musician in Tehran who withdraws from life after losing his instrument. Her film work also included the Marie Curie biopic Radioactive, and Persepolis established her as one of the most widely read Iranian authors in the world.