Comic book author Marjane Satrapi, world famous for “Persepolis”, awarded the Princess of Asturias prize

The Princess of Asturias Prize rewards personalities for their work of international scope in different categories including the human sciences, the arts, and international cooperation.

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The Princess of Asturias Foundation presented its prize for the human sciences, one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world, on Tuesday April 30 to the designer, director and painter of Iranian origin Marjane Satrapi. She was rewarded for her role.essential” In “the defense of human rights and freedom“, the Foundation said in a press release.

Marjane Satrapiis a symbol of women’s civic engagement. Thanks to her audacity and her artistic production, she is considered one of the most influential people in the dialogue between cultures and generations.“, adds the Foundation.

The artist, aged 53, has lived in France for around thirty years. She is the author of several comic strips, but also of several films, including the adaptation of Persepolis. This feature film, winner of the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, tells his personal story as well as the arrests and executions following the Islamic Revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

In 2023, while in Iran the movement for women’s freedom takes on a new dimension following the assassination of Mahsa Amini, a young woman guilty of not having worn the veil correctly, Marjane Satrapi speaks out again . This time, by bringing together a panel of authors (including Coco, Joann Sfar, Catel and Pascal Rabaté) and three specialists (a political scientist, a historian and a major reporter), for a vast graphic novel around this affair . Woman, life, freedom was published by Editions de l’Iconoclaste.