Babel: Marjane Satrapi (Back to events)
- Wed, Apr 1st 2009, 8:00pm
- Located at : 341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo NY
- Email me ( 1 day 2 days 3 days ) in advance
Continuing Babel’s second season is Marjane Satrapi. Satrapi born in 1969 in Rasht, Iran, is an Iranian and French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, Academy Award-nominated animated film director, and children's book author. Satrapi became famous worldwide because of her critically acclaimed autobiographical graphic novels Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which describe her childhood in Iran and her adolescence in Europe. Persepolis won the Angoulême Coup de Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Persepolis was adapted into an animated film of the same name, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2007 and shared a Special Jury Prize with Still Light (Luz silenciosa) by Carlos Reygadas. The English version, starring the voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, and Iggy Pop, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in January 2008.
In 1983, at the age of 14, Satrapi was sent to Vienna, Austria, by her parents in order to flee the Iranian regime. According to her autobiographical graphic novel, Persepolis, she lived there during her high school years, returning to Iran for college, eventually obtaining a Master's Degree in Visual Communication from the School of Fine Arts in Tehran Azad University. Satrapi then moved to Strasbourg, France. She currently lives in Paris, where she works as an illustrator and an author of children's books.
April 1, 8PM; $30 per author/$100 Babel subscription
Asbury Hall at Babeville
341 Delaware Avenue
716.854.1694
