In this 2012 PBS NewsHour interview, Iranian French author Marjane Satrapi speaks about her autobiographical graphic novels and films Persepolis and Chicken With Plums, and why she feels comics are the best form for her writing. Satrapi died at the age of fifty-six on June 4, 2026.
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