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FRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany: Paris-based Iranian writer and graphic artist Marjane Satrapi lights up a cigarette as she takes part in a discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 19 October 2005. Satrapi was noticed after producing Persepolis, an autobiographical "comic strip" that recounted her youth in Iran after the 1979 revolution. AFP PHOTO JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

FRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany:  Paris-based Iranian writer and graphic artist Marjane Satrapi lights up a cigarette as she takes part in a discussion at the Frankfurt Book Fair 19 October 2005. Satrapi was noticed after producing Persepolis, an autobiographical "comic strip" that recounted her youth in Iran after the 1979 revolution.  AFP PHOTO JOHN MACDOUGALL  (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)