Persepolis author Marjane Satrapi to appear at BCC

BELLEVUE, WASH.– Marjane Satrapi, author of the best-seller Persepolis and its sequel, Persepolis 2, will discuss her work in a free, public appearance at Bellevue Community College June 1.

Persepolis is this year’s selection for the ‘Seattle Reads’ program of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library.

The event begins at 12:30 p.m. in room 201 of the college’s N Building (at the extreme south end of BCC’s main campus, 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E., Bellevue, off 148th Ave. S.E.).

Persepolis is a humorous yet disquieting account of Satrapi’s childhood, from ages six to 14, in Tehran, Iran, during the Islamic Revolution. Using forceful black-and-white comic-strip images, Satrapi recounts the events of that historic period as seen by a child whose parents were committed Marxists and whose great-grandfather was of one of Iran's last emperors.

Satrapi currently lives in Paris where her illustrations appear regularly in newspapers and magazines.

Her appearance at BCC is sponsored by BCC’s Center for Liberal Arts, the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library and the BCC Women’s Center.

For further information, call BCC’s Center for Liberal Arts at 425-564-2550.

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