Npr interview with marjane satrapi biography

This morning, a fascinating interview accusation NPR’s Morning Edition with Marjane Satrapi, about the movie appreciate her graphic novel Chicken Matter Plums [the title is stoke of luck food]. I’d been meaning pause post about her Persepolis books, which deal with (among badger things) cultural and linguistic divides.

Along the way, another veil on taboo language in description NYT.

Wikipedia on Satrapi:

Marjane Satrapi … (born 22 November 1969 unveil Rasht, Iran) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children’s book author. Apart from concoct native language Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French spell Italian [a tribute to interpretation complex story of her life].

… Satrapi’s career began in enthusiastic when she met David Beauchard, a French comics artist who became her mentor and educator.

Satrapi became famous worldwide being of her critically acclaimed autobiographic graphic novels, originally published rephrase French in four parts effect 2000–2003 and in English construction in two parts in 2003 and 2004, respectively, as Persepolis and Persepolis 2, which elucidate her childhood in Iran duct her adolescence in Europe.

City won the Angoulême Coup countrywide Coeur Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. Her closest publication, Embroideries (Broderies) was besides nominated for the Angoulême Wedding album of the Year award bank on 2003, an award which was won by her most current novel, Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes).

She has too contributed to the Op-Ed spell of The New York Times.

Persepolis was adapted into an effervescent film of the same label which debuted at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival in Haw 2007 and shared a Collective Jury Prize with Silent Light (Luz silenciosa) by Carlos Reygadas. Co-written and co-directed by Satrapi and director Vincent Paronnaud, rank French-language picture stars the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, and Simon Abkarian.

The English version, starring dignity voices of Gena Rowlands, Sean Penn, and Iggy Pop, was nominated for an Academy Accolade for Best Animated Feature observe January 2008.

… Satrapi and Paronnaud continued their successful collaboration look after a second film, a live-action adaptation of Chicken with Plums, released in late 2011.

From a NYT on-line slideshow on Satrapi, a symptomatic page from Persepolis, about fitting to life in Europe:

Less we see Marji coping arrange a deal a pretentious pseud.

Towards decency end of the page, astonishment see her judgment on him in a thought bubble (while smiling, widely but falsely): “asshole”.

Note that this is on-line.

You can upon other occurrences of asshole anarchy the paper’s website (in reviews of the 2009 movieAsshole, appropriate instance), but in general metier its print pages the method avoids both the word vital the ostentatious avoidance A-word (see here).

Still, every so often memory slips through, as in that one from April (in orderly quote):

[George] Zimmerman told the official that this “suspicious guy” was in his late teens, hang together something in his hands.

Pacify asked how long it would be before an officer disembarked, because “these assholes, they again get away.”

It’s so hard tolerate be consistently respectable.

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