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The artist, writer and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi has passed away, AFP reports. She is best known for the graphic novel "Persepolis". Satrapi was born in 1969 in Rasht and grew up in Tehran. After the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s, she witnessed how many relatives and friends were persecuted, arrested and murdered. During her teenage years, she had problems with the police because she did not follow prevailing customs and laws. At the age of 14, her parents arranged for her to live with a family friend and study in Vienna. After her studies, she moved back to Iran for a period, and in 1994 left the country for France, where she then lived and worked. In addition to Persian, Satrapi also spoke French, English, Swedish, German and Italian. In her works, she often writes about her upbringing and the history of Iran. She gained international attention with “Persepolis”, a four-part graphic novel, published in 2000-2003 and about the author’s upbringing in Tehran, where she struggles with the restrictions imposed by Iran’s Islamic leadership after the revolution. Marjane Satrapi lived in Paris with her Swedish husband. She was 56 years old.

“Marjane Satrapi passed away from grief just over a year after the passing of her husband and love of her life, Mattias Ripa,” her family said in a statement.