In a country where rights are rare and where there is little or no separation between Church and State, one author has chosen to put a lighter side to the repression: Marjane Satrapi. She told the story of her childhood through the Islamic Revolution in her bestselling graphic novel Persepolis. Marjane decided to get into cartooning because “image is a way of writing, when you have the talent to both write and draw, it’s a shame to choose one”. Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novelist and author of the best-selling Persepolis and Embroideries, known worldwide because of her fresh perspective on life. Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran on November 22, 1969, and grew up in the capital, Tehran. She based her story on the Islamic Revolution, led throughout her early childhood for the modernization of Iran. Marjane always wanted to protest to her parents, and when she was six years old, she believed she was the last prophet. His parents taught him not to believe everything he was told at school about the leader, because it was almost all propaganda. Satrapi went to high school at the Lycée Français, a French school in Iran, but because she questioned what her teachers taught, and her parents were concerned, she was later sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents to study there. go to school. After finishing high school, Marjane returned to Tehran for college, but she had become accustomed to the Western lifestyle and often had problems with the police stopping her parties. In 1989, Satrapi married her first husband, Reza, and remained married to him for five years. She later remarried Mattias Ripa, to whom she is currently married. She eventually moved to Paris, France, where she currently lives, and writes all over the world, like many of her other books, like Broderies and Poulet aux prunes. . She is a Franco-Iranian, who knows how to give anything a humorous, or at least less gloomy, side. She is a bestselling author who has become a necessity in high school English classes for her books. Works Cited “Marjane Satrapi”. Happy reading. Goodreads Inc., 2014. The web. February 14, 2014. “Marjane Satrapi”. Steven Barclay Agency. Steven Barclay Gency, 2014. The web. January 30, 2014. .“Marjane Satrapi.” Encyclopedia of World Biography. Steven Barclay Agency, 2014. Web. January 30, 2014. .Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis. Vol. 1. New York, NY: Pantheon, 2003. Print “Persepolis : the story of a childhood." Persepolis: the story of a childhood Barnes & Noble, 2014. Web February 8.. 2014. .