Chicken with Plums
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Chicken with Plums | |
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Date | 2006 |
Page count | 96 pages |
Creative team | |
Creator | Marjane Satrapi |
Original publication | |
Published in | Poulet aux prunes |
Date of publication | 2004 |
Language | French |
ISBN | 2-84414-159-5 |
Translation | |
Publisher | Pantheon Books |
Date | 2006 |
ISBN | 0375424156 |
Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes in the original French version) is a 2004 graphic novel by Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.
Synopsis[edit]
The book narrates the last eight days of the life of Nasser Ali Khan, a relative of Satrapi's, in November 1958 in Tehran.
Publication history[edit]
The original French-language version was published in France in 2004 and the English version was translated by Anjali Singh and published by Pantheon Books in 2006 (ISBN 0375424156), followed by a softcover version in 2009 (ISBN 0375714758).
Awards[edit]
Chicken with Plums won the Best Album Award (Prix du Meilleur Album) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005.[1][2]
Film adaptation[edit]
Satrapi directed a film based on the comic, which debuted at the La Pate theatre in France on October 26, 2011.
References[edit]
- ^ Abbasi, Hasti (2018-08-25). Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature. Springer. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-319-96484-3.
- ^ "Angoulême 2005 : "Poulet aux prunes" meilleur album - TOUTENBD.COM". www.toutenbd.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
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