Marjane Satrapi Wins Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanity

Marjane Satrapi Wins Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanity

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Marjane Satrapi was awarded Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanity on Tuesday. She recounts in "Persepolis' her years as an outspoken teenager chafing at the Islamic revolution and its restrictions imposed on women. At 14, her parents sent her to school in Vienna to avoid arrest over her defiance of the regime.

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