Forough Farrokhzad فروغ فرخزاد

Forough Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد) (January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forough Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most significant female poet of the twentieth century. She was a brilliant modernist poet and an iconoclast.

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 filmmaker/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.

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. (näytä vähemmän)

Forough Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد) (January 5, 1935 — February 14, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forough Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most significant female poet of the twentieth century. She was a brilliant modernist poet and an iconoclast.

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 filmmaker/writer Ebrahim... (lue lisää)