The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings h[...]
Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran in 1935 and died in a car crash at the age of 32. During her short, tumultuous life she was married and divorced; had a son, who was taken away from her; had love affairs; made an award-winning documentary film; adopted a child from a leper colony; and published [...]
Forugh Farrokhzad er det 20. århundredes vigtigste og mest læste iranske digterinde. Hun blev født i Teheran i 1934 og døde som 32-årig i en bilulykke. I sit korte liv fornyede hun persisk poesi radikalt og slog internationalt igennem med sine kontroversielle digte om blandt andet kærlighed og[...]