Iranian Translator of Blue Is the Warmest Colour 'Declared Persona Non Grata'

THE GUARDIAN

BY SAEED KAMALI DEHGHAN

An Iranian poet who translated the prize-winning French graphic novel Blue Is the Warmest Colour into Persian has claimed she is the target of a smear campaign in Iran for supporting homosexuality, punishable in the country by 100 lashes or even death.

A group of hardline Iranian news websites have attempted to discredit Sepideh Jodeyri for the Persian translation of Julie Maroh’s 2010 graphic novel, about a lesbian romance between two young women in France. The film adaptation of Blue is the Warmest Colour won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival in 2013.

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