Satrapi, Creator of Persepolis, Dies at 56, Leaving a Global Call for Freedom

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author and illustrator of Persepolis, has died at 56. Her autobiographical works chronicled Tehran’s 1979 revolution and exile, turning a personal story into a universal meditation on freedom and women’s rights, and she helped popularize Iranian perspectives through comics and film after gaining French citizenship; tributes from leaders and peers followed as details of her death—described by her family as due to sadness after the loss of her husband—emerged.