Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian:فروغ فرخزاد; January 5, 1935 – February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran's most influential female poets of the 20th century. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast.
Biography
Forugh (also spelled Forough) was born in Tehran to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad (originally from Tafresh city) and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar in 1935. The third of seven children (Amir, Massoud, Mehrdad, Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Pooran Farrokhzad, Gloria), she attended school until the ninth grade, then was taught painting and sewing at a girl's school for the manual arts. At age sixteen she was married to Parviz Shapour, an acclaimed satirist. Farrokhzad continued her education with classes in painting and sewing and moved with her husband to Ahvaz. A year later, she bore her only child, a son named Kamyar Shapour (subject of A Poem for You).
Within two years, in 1954, Farrokhzad 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.
"I finally regained hope" ... - Rich poetic tradition - ... Early20th-century poetry gave voice to social protest and faced censorship under the former monarchy, including the works of dissident poets Ahmad Shamlou, Forough Farrokhzad and Simin Behbahani ... .
The West is unable to come to terms with its slow demise as the dominating bloc in the world, writes Vijay Prashad... [See ... That anticipation defines a classic by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), “Someone Who Is Not Like Anyone” (1966). ... .
Luis Felipe Noé (Argentina), La naturaleza y los mitos II (‘Nature and Myths II’), 1975 ... From Tricontinental ... That anticipation defines a classic by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), ‘Someone Who Is Not Like Anyone’ (1966). ... if I’m lying.
Urdu poetry seldom goes beyond the reductive vision of women in classical imagery and decorous rhymes ... (HT Photo) ... A contemporary of both Sylvia Plath (1932-1962) and Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967), Riaz’s poetry evokes a strong sense of transcendence.
The poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, Parvin ... I still remember the picture of Forough Farrokhzad, smoking a cigarette, in my brother's room, and her poems representing the facets of feminist culture.
\nThe struggle for female emancipation was powerfully articulated by Forough Farrokhzad, a 20th-century poet ...Religious clerics banned the dissemination of her poetry and, when Farrokhzad’s publisher refused to stop, he was thrown in jail.
The collection will be published by Bloomsbury on 27 April ... I don’t shy away from hurting the reader ... I’ve never felt at home anywhere ... No ... Forough Farrokhzad, because I’ve been translating her work for myself and that’s really affected my writing ... .
44) I Will Greet the Sun Again, Forough Farrokhzad ... Then there’s the perseverance of Forough Farrokhzad, who brings us to the “love-filled threshold” in I Will Greet the Sun Again, and the sheer ...
The trailblazer was Forough Farrokhzad a 19-year-old divorcee. A rebel poet ahead of her time, Forough wrote about women’s desire, sexuality and need for freedom ... Forough went on to direct a documentary ...
Entitled Woman, Life, Liberty...Kicking off the series on Nov ... Next, on Nov ... Nov ... That’s followed by short film The House is Black (1962), the only film directed by trailblazing feminist Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad. Ending the series on Nov ... .
Another female icon represented, is the late feminist poet Forough Farrokhzad, whose continuing popularity with young Iranian women, 55 years after her death, is a sore point with the Islamic Republic who tried, unsuccessfully, to ban her writing.
