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Forough Farrokhzad

Forough Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد) (January 5, 1935 — February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poetess and film director. Forough Farrokhzad, Parvin E'tesami and Simin Behbahani are usually considered the most famous modern female poets of Iran.^{[original research?]} Forough Farrokhzad was mainly under the influence of Ebrahim Golestan, a notable Iranian scholar.^[1] Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Forough-farrokhzad. ... “Farsi” redirects here. ... is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Parvin Etesami is one of Irans greatest poetesses. ... Simin Behbahani (in Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; born in 1927, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian poetess. ... Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure, with a career spanning half a century. ...

Forough was born in Tehran to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. She was the third of seven children and attended school until the ninth grade, then learning painting and sewing at a girl's school for the manual arts. At age sixteen or seventeen she was married to Parviz Shapour, an acclaimed satirist. Forough continued her education with classes in painting and sewing and moved with her husband to Ahvaz. A year later, she had her only child, a son named Kāmyār (subject of A Poem for You). For other uses, see Tehran (disambiguation). ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Forough Farrokhzad and Parviz Shapour Parviz Shapour (February 23, 1924 - August 4, 2000) was an Iranian writer and caricaturist. ... The city of Ahvaz or Ahwaz[1] (Persian: ahvāz, Arabic: ), is the capital of the Iranian province of KhÅ«zestān. ...

Within two years, in 1954, Forough and her husband divorced. Parviz won custody of the child. She moved back to Tehran to write poetry and published her first volume, entitled The Captive, in 1955. This article is about the art form. ...

Forough, as a female divorcée writing controversial poetry with a strong feminine voice, became the focus of much negative attention and open disapproval. In 1958 she spent nine months in Europe and met film-maker/writer Ebrahim Golestan, who inspired her to express herself and live independently. She published two more volumes, The Wall and The Rebellion before going to Tabriz to make a film about Iranians affected by leprosy. This 1962 film was called The House is Black and won awards world-wide. During 12 days of shooting, she became attached to Hossein Mansouri, the child of two lepers, whom she adopted and had live in her mother's house. Ebrahim Golestan is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure, with a career spanning half a century. ... Tabriz (Persian and Azari: تبریز; Armenian: Ô¹Õ¡Õ¾Ö€Õ«Õ¦) is the largest city in north-western Iran with an estimated population of 1,597,319 (2007 est. ... For the malady found in the Hebrew Bible, see the article Tzaraath. ... The House is Black (Persian: خانه سیاه است, Khaneh siah ast) is an acclaimed Iranian short film directed by Forough Farrokhzad. ...

In 1963 she published the volume Another Birth and by now her poetry was mature and sophisticated, also being a profound change from previous modern Iranian poetic conventions.

On February 13, 1967, at 4:30 pm, Forough died in a car accident at age thirty-two. In order to avoid hitting a school bus, she swerved her Jeep, which hit a stone wall; she died before reaching the hospital. Her poem Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season was published posthumously and is considered the best-structured modern poem in Persian. “Farsi” redirects here. ...

A brief literary biography of Forough, Michael Hillmann's A lonely woman: Forough Farrokhzad and her poetry, was published in 1987. Also about her is a chapter in Farzaneh Milani's work Veils and words: the emerging voices of Iranian women writers (1992).

She is the sister of the singer, poet and political activist Fereydoon Farrokhzad (1936 — 1992; assassinated in Bonn, Germany). A new English translation of a selection of her poems by Maryam Dilmaghani is published on-line by the name of Forough Farrokhzad: The Sad Little Fairy to commemorate the 40th anniversary of her death. Nasser Saffarian has directed three documentaries on her; The Mirror of the Soul (2000), The Green Cold (2003), and Summit of the Wave (2004). [See discussion.] Fereydoun Farrokhzad, (in Persian: فریدون فرخزاد) was an Iranian singer and opposition figure. ... Historic Town Hall of Bonn (view from the market square). ...

Foroogh's tomb is located in Zahir o-dowleh cemetery, Darband, Shemiran, Tehran.

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Two poems by Forough

The Gift

I speak of the end of night

I speak

of the end of darkness

And of the end of night.

O kind one,

If you come to my home,

Bring me a light

And a nook

From which I may watch the crowding of the glad lane.

Translator of the above poem is unknown.

Frontier Walls

Return with me to that star,

Return with me

To that star far away

from the frozen seasons of the earth and its

ways to measure and understand

Where no one fears light.

Return with me

To the start of creation

To the fragrant core of a fertilized egg

To the moment I was born from you

Return with me, you have left me incomplete.

Translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz ^[2]

Fatemeh Keshavarz Fatemeh Keshavarz (Persian: فاطمه كشاورز) (born 1952 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian academic, writer and literary figure. ...

Notes

1. ^ Interview with Simin Behbahani on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Forough Farrokhzad's death on Thursday 13 February 2007 (BBC Persian).
2. ^ Fatemeh Keshavarz, Banishing the Ghosts of Iran, The Chronicle Review of Higher Education, Vol. 53, No. 45, p. B6 (13 July 2007). [1]

Simin Behbahani (in Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; born in 1927, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian poetess. ...

Translations of Forough's works

• Arabic: Mohammad Al-Amin, Gassan Hamdan
• Azari: Samad Behrangi
• English: Maryam Dilmaghani
• French: Mahshid Moshiri
• German: Annemarie Schimmel
• Turkish: Hashem Khosrow-Shahi, Jalal Khosrow-Shahi

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Biography

• Michael Craig Hillmann, A lonely woman: Forough Farrokhzad and her poetry (Three Continents Press, Washington, D.C., 1987). ISBN 0-934-2111-16, ISBN 978-093-42111-16.

References

• Farzaneh Milani, Veils and words: the emerging voices of Iranian women writers (Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 1992). ISBN 0-815-62557-X, ISBN 978-1-85043-574-7.

Further reading

• Manijeh Mannani, The Reader's Experience and Forough Farrokhzad's Poetry, Crossing Boundaries - an interdiciplinary journal, Vol. 1, pp. 49-65 (2001). PDF
• Michael Craig Hillmann, An Autobiographical Voice: Forough Farrokhzad, in Women's Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran, edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990). ISBN 0932885055. This essay can be read here: [2].

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External links

• NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION!
• A Website Dedicated to Forough
• Iran Chamber's Article on Forough
• A Website Dedicated to Forough
• Farrukhzad, Forugh, a biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota
• Clips, Listen to some of her poems by her own voice
• "She loved as in our age people no longer do"
• Forough Farrokhzad's résumé. [3]
• Biography and poems
• Audiobooks (Ketab-e Gooya).
• A Flash motion picture by Kianoosh Ramezani of Zahir-od-Dowleh cemetery in Tehran. [4]

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See also

• Iranian women
• List of famous Persian women
• List of Iranian Intellectuals
• Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi

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