Seven Stories snaps up Woman, Life, Freedom edited by Satrapi

Seven Stories Press has snapped up Woman, Life, Freedom, edited, introduced and with contributions by Marjane Satrapi and translated from the French by Una Dimitrijević.

Publisher Dan Simon acquired world English rights from Marleen Seegers of 2 Seas Agency, on behalf of Books and More Agency in Paris, and foreign rights director Ella Bartlett of the independent French publisher L’Iconoclaste.

Satrapi is a French-Iranian graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director and children’s book author. Her best-known work is the graphic novel Persepolis (Vintage) and its film adaptation Woman, Life, Freedom will be released to coincide with Nowruz (Iranian New Year) on 19th March 2024 in the US and 20th March 2024 in the UK. The independently published English edition of the book was created in cooperation with the originating independent French publisher, L’Iconoclaste.

The book is billed as a “groundbreaking collection of graphic novel style reporting” which “captures the unprecedented and inspiring revolution happening in Iran today”. Woman, Life, Freedom is a collaboration between activists, artists, journalists and academics under the direction of and with contributions by Satrapi. It depicts the historic protests that followed the murder of Mahsa Amini, and shows in comics what would otherwise be censored in photos and film in Iran.