1 of 3 | Directors Vincent Paronnaud (L) and Marjane Satrapi celebrate winning the Jury Prize for their film "Persepolis" at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007. Satrapi died Thursday at the age of 56. File Photo by Christine Chew/UPI | License Photo
June 4 (UPI) -- French-Iranian Persepolis author and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56.
"Her passing marks the loss of a leading figure in French culture and an artist deeply committed to freedom, whose work carried a universal message and earned her immense international acclaim," France's Élysée Palace announced Thursday.
She wrote and directed an Oscar-nominated 2007 film adaptation of her renowned, autobiographical graphic novels about the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and its aftermath.
The cause and circumstances of her death were not immediately reported.
