1. Forugh Farrokhzad was an influential Iranian poet and film director.
10 Facts About Forugh Farrokhzad
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Forugh Farrokhzad was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author.
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Forugh Farrokhzad was born in Tehran on 28 December 1934, to career military officer Colonel Mohammad Bagher Farrokhzad and his wife Touran Vaziri-Tabar.
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Forugh Farrokhzad continued her education with painting and sewing classes and moved with her husband to Ahvaz.
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Forugh Farrokhzad's only child, a son named Kamyar Shapour, was born a year later.
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Forugh Farrokhzad published two more volumes, The Wall and The Rebellion, before traveling to Tabriz to make a film about Iranians affected by leprosy.
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Forugh Farrokhzad adopted the boy and brought him to live at her mother's house.
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Forugh Farrokhzad died in a car accident on 14 February 1967, at the age of 32.
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Forugh Farrokhzad's poem "Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season" was published posthumously, and is considered by some to be one of the best-structured modern poems in Persian.
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Forugh Farrokhzad's poetry was banned for more than a decade after the Islamic Revolution.