Welcome to Between the Lines Book Club! This month we will be discussing Persepolis in this space and in person at Arden Dimick Library on August 24, 2019 at 10:30AM. Please join us!

Marjane Satrapi was born in Iran in 1969. Her family, afraid that she would be arrested if she remained in Iran, sent her to Vienna in 1983. She studied in Vienna and returned to Iran, where she married, She and her first husband divorced after two years and Marjane moved to France, where she has lived ever since. Currently, she is a film director and activist. She is married to a man from Sweden and speaks multiple languages including Persian, French, English, and Swedish.

Here’s a link to her interview in Vogue!

Here’s her interview in The Guardian.

And here is a video interviews: