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Marjane Satrapi, the French Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker whose 2007 animated feature Persepolis earned an Oscar nomination, has died, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Her cause of death is not public, but a statement from her family noted her death occurred a little over a year after the death of her husband, producer-actor-screenwriter Mattias Ripa, whom her family noted was the “love of her life.” She echoed this sentiment herself in a series of posts on her Instagram page. Satrapi was 56.

The four-volume Persepolis graphic novels, Satrapi’s best-known works to English speakers, were first published in France between 2000 and 2003 and condensed into two English volumes, which arrived in ’03 and ’04. They told the story of a girl growing up in Iran and Austria during the Islamic Revolution. The title referred to the Persian Empire’s onetime capital. The novels ranked Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 Best Non-Superhero Graphic Novels. A blurb praised the novels as “an excellent coming-of-age tale set in a place most Westerners know precious little about.”