MARJANE SATRAPI DIES AT 56: PERSEPOLIS BECOMES A STATE AFFAIR IN PARIS, AN AWKWARD SILENCE IN TEHRAN

GERMANY

STATE

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Berlin quotes Satrapi verbatim: "Every millimeter of forehead won was ten meters toward freedom"

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ARGENTINA

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Buenos Aires reads Satrapi in universal key — as a voice that also speaks of Latin American dictatorships

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CANADA

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Ottawa reproduces the AP dispatch — standard coverage without Canadian particularism

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CHINA

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Beijing keeps it minimal — SCMP treats Satrapi as cultural obituary, not as Iranian dissident

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SOUTH KOREA

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Seoul reads Satrapi as a figure of the global fight for women — full AP without censorship

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UNITED STATES

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Washington celebrates the dissident, the 2007 Cannes archive, and the post-Mahsa Amini denunciation

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FRANCE

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Paris claims Satrapi for the state, but has to dance around the Legion of Honor she rejected

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ISRAEL

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Tel-Aviv keeps it brief — Haaretz runs a minimal, paywalled dispatch, almost by duty

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ITALY

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Rome places her in the Cannes 2007 pantheon and remembers her refusal of the French decoration

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MEXICO

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Mexico City turns the obituary into a reading prescription: Persepolis as a tool for understanding the world

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PAKISTAN

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Islamabad prints the Iranian regime critique without hedging — and frames France as a country that denies visas to artists

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NETHERLANDS

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Amsterdam returns to the Persepolis preface: "a whole nation cannot be condemned for the misdeeds of a few extremists"

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UNITED KINGDOM

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London anchors the story in Oscars, Cannes, and Satrapi as a British icon of Iranian feminism

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SWEDEN

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Stockholm mourns an artist familiar by marriage — Satrapi, widow of a Swede, gone "of sadness"

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TURKEY

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Istanbul measures the loss for the women of a plural Middle East — and the 2024 Asturias Prize as recognition

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