Forough farrokhzad poems pdf

Read a sample of Farrokhzad's work here.

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Persian Studies
The University of Maryland

Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-67), Iran’s most innovative and pioneer woman poet in modern times, was born on January 5, 1935 in Tehran, third of seven children born to Mohammad Farrokhzad and Turan Vaziritabar.

Her father was an army officer and her mother a homemaker. Farrokhzad’s formal education was limited, as she never finished high school. At age 16, she fell in love with and, against family sentiments, married Parviz Shapur, a distant relative fifteen years older than she was.

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The couple moved to the southwestern city of Ahvaz where he worked in the provincial office of the Ministry of Finance. The marriage ended in acrimonious divorce three years later, leaving her with her only natural child, a son named Kamyar.

As was common practice in Iran, the court awarded custody rights to the father; in this case, Farrokhzad als