It is one of the most prestigious awards in the Spanish-speaking world. The Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, who made herself known worldwide with the comic strip and the film Persepolis, received the Princess of Asturias prize for the human sciences on Tuesday. The designer, director and painter of Iranian origin was rewarded for her “essential” role in “the defense of human rights and freedom,” said the Princess of Asturias Foundation in a press release.
Marjane Satrapi “is a symbol of women’s civic engagement. Thanks to her audacity and her artistic production, she is considered one of the most influential people in the dialogue between cultures and generations,” adds the Foundation.
The artist, aged 53, has lived in France for around thirty years. She is the author of several comic books, but also of several films, including the adaptation of Persepolis. This feature film, which won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, tells his personal story as well as the arrests and executions following the Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.