Forough Farokhzad
Forough Farrokhzad (born in January 5, 1935, Tehran, Iran — February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forough Farrokhzad is arguably Iran's most influential female poet of the twentieth century. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast.
Farrokhzad's poetry was banned for more than a decade after the Islamic Revolution. A brief literary biography of Forough, Michael Hillmann's A lonely woman: Forough Farrokhzad and her poetry, was published in 1987. Also about her is a chapter in Farzaneh Milani's work Veils and words: the emerging voices of Iranian women writers (1992).
On February 13, 1967, Farrokhzad died in a car accident at age thirty-two. In order to avoid hitting a school bus, she swerved her Jeep, which hit a stone wall; she died before reaching the hospital. Her poem "Let us believe in the beginning of the cold season" was published posthumously, and is considered by some to be the best-structured modern poem in Persian.
