So I went there, and all these people were cartoonists, and they were telling me about comics, and encouraging me to try making cartoons as well. I wanted the place since it is just impossible to sit at your home and work. When I came to Paris it was really by coincidence that I found a place in a studio unit with a couple of artists. In my childhood it was just Tintin, but I thought always that Tintin was extremely boring, so I was not interested in reading that! In Iran, there really isn't a culture for this sort of thing, although of course there are illustrations and comic strips, but never a whole book just of comics, so I never read any such thing. No, to tell you the truth, that was just a coincidence. How did you come to be interested in the form of the graphic novel? Are there other authors working in the same genre from whom you take your inspiration? Embroideries was published in April 2005 by Pantheon.Īsia Society's interview with Marjane Satrapi was conducted by phone, with Satrapi in Paris. She is the author of the internationally best-selling and award-winning comic book autobiography in two parts, Persepolis (Pantheon, 2003) and Persepolis 2 (Pantheon, 2004). She has written several children’s books and her commentary and comics appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times and The New Yorker. Marjane Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran, and currently lives in Paris.
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