On Thursday, October 23, bestselling comic book artist, filmmaker, and writer Marjane Satrapi will join the Hathaway Brown community for an onstage conversation about her life and work. After sharing a clip from her forthcoming movie, The Voices starring Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick, Ms. Satrapi will be interviewed and take questions from the audience, followed by a book signing.
The event will take place from 9-10 a.m. during the Upper School's morning assembly and will serve as a kick-off event for the Young Writers Festival.
Ms. Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis, a favorite of HB students, tells the story of the author's youth in Iran in the 1970s and '80s, of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. After its initial publication in France, Persepolis earned enormous critical acclaim and won several prestigious book comic book awards (Prix Alph'art Coup de Coeur at Angoulême, Prix du Lion in Belgium, Prix Alph'art du meilleur scénario, and the Prix France Info).