Iranian Comics - Iranian Comics Artists, Iranian Comics Writers, Marjane Satrapi, Ebrahim Nabavi, Nikahang Kowsar, Mana Neyestani (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Iranian Comics Artists, Iranian Comics Writers, Marjane Satrapi, Ebrahim Nabavi, Nikahang Kowsar, Mana Neyestani, Chicken With Plums, Alan Sakhavarz. Excerpt: Marjane Satrapi (Persian: ) (born 22 November 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author. Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lyce Franais there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq war. Satrapi's family are of distant Iranian Azeri ancestry and are descendants of Nasser al-Din Shah, Shah of Persia from 1848 until 1896. Satrapi said that "But you have to know the kings of the Qajar dynasty, they had hundreds of wives. They made thousands of kids. If you multiply these kids by generation you have, I don't know, 10-15,000 princes . There's nothing extremely special about that." She added that due to this detail, most Iranian families would be, in the words of Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, "blue blooded." In 1983, at the age of 14 Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. There she attended the Lyce Franais de Vienne. According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she stayed in Vienna through her high school years, staying in friends' homes, but eventually became homeless. After an almost deadly bout of pneumonia, she returned to Iran. She went to university in Iran and met a man named Reza,... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=482729