| Chicken with Plums | |
| Foreigntitle: | Poulet aux prunes |
| Publisher: | L'Association |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Origpublication: | France |
| Origdate: | October 2004 |
| Origlanguage: | French |
| Origisbn: | 2-84414-159-5 |
| Creator: | Marjane Satrapi |
| Transpublisher: | Pantheon Books |
| Transdate: | 2006 |
| Transisbn: | 0375424156 |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Translator: | Anjali Singh |
| Us: | N |
Chicken with Plums (French: Poulet aux prunes) is a 2004 graphic novel by Iranian author Marjane Satrapi.
Nasser Ali Khan, a relative of Satrapi's and a Tar player, has his cherished instrument broken after a quarrel. The book narrates the last eight days of his life as he lost the will to live, in November 1958 in Tehran.
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, followed by a softcover version in 2009 .
Chicken with Plums won the Best Album Award (Prix du Meilleur Album) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005.[1] [2]
See main article: Chicken with Plums (film). Satrapi directed a film with the same name based on the comic, which debuted at the La Pate theatre in France on October 26, 2011.