"She died of grief a little more than a year after Mattias Ripa's passing. He was her husband and the great love of her life," the family wrote in a statement to AFP.
The first volume of Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel "Persepolis" was published in Sweden in 2004 and received wide attention. It was published in Swedish in four parts. Satrapi tells the story of 8-year-old Marjane, who witnesses the Iranian revolution in Tehran in 1978.
Eventually she comes to Europe, where she experiences freedom and love but also loneliness and exclusion.
Satrapi directed the animated film based on the novel and later moved into film directing.
However, when Mahsa Amini died in 2022 in Tehran after being abducted by the Iranian morality police, Marjane Satrapi returned to comics and produced the book "Woman, Life, Freedom" together with 16 other Iranian cartoonists.
Marjane Satrapi met her Swedish husband, Mattias Ripa, while he was studying in Paris. They married in Stockholm. This spring, Marjane Satrapi established a film foundation named after both of them.
She was 56 years old.
