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Iranian-born graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi talks painting and feminism

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Marjane Satrapi is showing 16 of her paintings in the Francoise Livinec gallery in Paris this month. Photo: Handout

Iranian Marjane Satrapi is famous for her films and graphic novels, but it is her painting which keeps her sane, she said.

The artist who was nominated for an Oscar for Persepolis, based on her graphic novel on post-revolution Iran, started out as a painter.

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