Forough Farrokhzad
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Image:Foroogh tomb.jpg Forough Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد) (January 5, 1935 — February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poet.
Foroogh Farrokhzad, Parvin E'tesami and Simin Behbahani are usually considered the most famous female poets of Iran.
Born into a military family in Tehran in 1935, Forough had six siblings and attended school until the ninth grade. 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 (subject of "A Poem for You").
Not two years later, she and her husband divorced. Parviz took custody of the child so that Forough could pursue her writing career. She moved back to Tehran to write poetry and published her first volume, entitled The Captive, in 1955.
She drew much attention that was regarded with disapproval in her community as a divorcee with controversial, openly feminine poetry. In 1958 she spent nine months in Europe and met film-maker/writer Ebrahim Golestan. 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 Another Birth which was very fresh and profound in modern Iranian poetry.
On February 14, 1967, Forough died in a car accident at age thirty-two. 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.
She is the sister of the singer, poet and political activist Fereydoon Farrokhzad.
External links
- 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
See also
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