1. Simin Daneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator.
20 Facts About Simin Daneshvar
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Simin Daneshvar was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist.
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Simin Daneshvar's books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time.
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Simin Daneshvar was a renowned translator, a few of her translations were "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Simin Daneshvar was born on 28 April 1921 in Shiraz, Qajar Iran.
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Simin Daneshvar attended the English bilingual school, Mehr Ain and in eighth grade published her first article, "Winter Is Not Unlike Our Life," in a local newspaper.
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Simin Daneshvar then entered the Persian literature department at the University of Tehran in the fall of 1938.
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Simin Daneshvar wrote about cooking and food as well as other things.
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Simin Daneshvar began writing for the foreign affairs section of a newspaper in Tehran, since she could translate from English.
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Simin Daneshvar started her literary life in 1935, when she was in the eighth grade.
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In 1950, Simin Daneshvar married the well-known Iranian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad.
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Simin Daneshvar had to translate many books in order to support her household, often was earning more than Jalal.
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Simin Daneshvar's husband died that same year, in their summer home on the Caspian Sea.
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Simin Daneshvar and Al-e-Ahmad were unable to have children, which was a topic that Jalal Al-e-Ahmad wrote about in several of his works.
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Simin Daneshvar continued teaching as an associate professor in the university, later becoming the chair of the Department of Art History and Archaeology, from the 1970s until her retirement in 1981.
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Simin Daneshvar was hospitalised in Tehran for acute respiratory problems in 2005.
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Simin Daneshvar was released after one month in August 2005.
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Simin Daneshvar died at her home in Tehran on 8 March 2012 after a bout with influenza.
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Simin Daneshvar's inspiration is drawn from the people around her.
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In Language of Sleep, a biography play which attempts to portray the lives of two great female authors, German-Romanian novelist Herta Muller and herself Simin Daneshvar was written by Mona Ahmadi.