Remembering Marjane Satrapi: 5 books like ‘Persepolis’ that blend art, exile, and political defiance

Key points

• Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author, died at 56 "out of sadness" just over a year after losing her husband and the love of her life, Mattias Ripa, a member of her close circle, told AFP on Thursday.
• "Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life," they said in a statement sent to AFP.
• She permanently transformed the landscape of graphic literature with Persepolis, her monochrome masterpiece that took an intimate, rebellious childhood in revolutionary Iran and turned it into a universal fable of survival, identity, and exile “I think that the problem of the world today is that people don't know each other...
• They think that a country is equal to its government,” Satrapi noted when Persepolis took Cannes by storm.
• To honour her immense legacy of blending sharp political defiance with deeply human...