Iranian-French writer, cartoonist, director and 2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanity laureate Marjane Satrapi arrives the 2024 Princess of Asturias Awards ceremony at the Campoamor Theater in Oviedo, Spain, Oct. 25, 2024. EPA-Yonhap
PARIS — Acclaimed Iranian-French cartoonist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights, has died at 56, the French presidency said Thursday.
“Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure of French culture and an artist devoted to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim,” the French presidency said in a statement.
President Emmanuel Macron and his wife “pay tribute to a remarkable artist who transformed an Iranian childhood into a universal fable,” the statement said.
News broadcaster BFM TV and other French media reported Satrapi has “died of sadness” a little over a year after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, according to a statement from people close to the artist.
