Iranian Novelist and Illustrator to Speak at UMaine Oct. 19
Contact: Mazie Hough, 581-1225; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — Marjane Satrapi, a contemporary graphic novelist and illustrator born in Teheran, is the 2006 Anne Margaret Johnstone Memorial Lecturer and will speak at the University of Maine Oct. 19 about her life and work.
Satrapi will participate at 12:30 p.m., in 130 Little Hall, in “A Conversation with Marjane Satrapi,” hosted by reporter Alicia Anstead of the Bangor Daily News. Satrapi also will speak later in the day, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 100, DP Corbett Business Building. The evening talk is titled “Iran in the Revolution and After: Graphic Novelist Marjane Satrapi Reflects on Her Life and Work.”
Born in 1969, Satrapi lived in Tehran until she was sent to Switzerland at the age of 14. Her most famous work is “Persepolis,” an autobiographical account of a childhood and adolescence shaped by the Iranian Revolution. The work was published in four volumes in France, where it was compared to Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” and won numerous prestigious comic book awards. Other books by Satrapi include “Embroideries” and “Chicken and Plums,” as well as several children’s books.
Satrapi now lives in Paris, where her illustrations appear regularly in magazines and newspapers. She also writes an occasional piece for the New York Times.
The public is invited to the free events, which are sponsored by the Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program, with generous support from the Distinguished Lecture Series/Cultural Affairs Fund, Student Government, Peace Studies Program, Division of Student Affairs, Multicultural Programs and the UMaine English and History departments.
Additional information can be obtained by calling the Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program at (207) 581-1228.