Marjane Satrapi Dies at 56

Overview

• Her entourage told AFP that Satrapi died on Thursday, June 4, 2026, and described her as having “died of sadness” about a year after her husband Mattias Ripa’s death on April 8, 2025.
• She rose to international fame with the four‑volume graphic memoir Persepolis and co‑directed its 2007 film adaptation, which won the Cannes Jury Prize and earned an Oscar nomination.
• Satrapi spent most of her adult life in France, became a naturalized French citizen in 2006, and worked across comics, film and painting while drawing on her childhood in Iran under the 1979 revolution.
• In recent years she was a visible critic of the Iranian regime, refused the Légion d’honneur in 2025 to protest French policy toward Iran, and in early 2026 helped establish the Fondation Mattias et Marjane Ripa‑Satrapi to support foreign cinema students in Paris.
• French and international outlets and peers have published tributes that stress her artistic influence, her role as a voice for the Iranian diaspora and the personal grief that shaped her final year.