7 p.m.
LeClerc Auditorium

Persepolis tells the story of Marjane Satrapi's youth in Iran in the 1970s and 80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. It is a book about childhood, a childhood at once outrageous and ordinary--beset by the unthinkable, but buffered by an extraordinary and loving family. Persepolis was published in four volumes in France, where it met with enormous critical acclaim, garnered comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, and won several prestigious comic book awards (Prix Alph'art Coup de Coeur at Angouleme, Prix du Lion in Belgium, Prix Alph'art du meilleur scenario and the Prix France Info). Persepolis has been translated into German, Dutch, Portugese, Spanish and Italian, among other languages. The work is published as two volumes in the United States: Persepolis and Persepolis 2.

Co-sponsored by the Sister Maura Eichner Endowed Professorship and the Baldwin Fund.