“Oh gosh, Persepolis had such a lasting impact on me...”

As a Senior Editor at BuzzFeed, I cover books and politics, and I also created the daily vocabulary-boosting word game SAT Scramble.

Someone close to Marjane told a news agency that she "died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life."

It was also adapted into a 2007 movie, which was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. 

"My lecturer was herself a refugee, and she was so moved by it despite having already seen it dozens of times. That stuck with me almost as much as the story.

Her art style absolutely impacted my illustration, too. I loved her usage of color, and it was honestly the first time I ever saw graphic novels as something that could be ‘adult’- fast forward nearly a decade, and I own so many."

“If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.” ―Marjane Satrapi