Pouran Farrokhzad ( Persian: پوران فرخ‌زاد, February 1932 – 29 December 2016) was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

writer, poet, playwright, and encyclopedist. She was author of the ''Encyclopedia of Women Culture Makers in Iran and in the World'' which was the first comprehensive women's encyclopedia in Iran.Pooran Farrokhzad
Iranian.ws She was the daughter of Turan Vaziri Tabar (born in Tehran and Kashitbar) and Colonel Mohammad Farrokhzad (who was an educated poet-loving lieutenant from the village of Bazargan Tafresh). Pouran spent her childhood in

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and other cities and grew up in

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. She and her siblings learned to read before going to school and became accustomed to reading books. In 1931, her father moved from Nowshahr to Tehran, and Pouran studied at Jaleh and Soroush Primary School, during which time her literary talent was revealed. She also learned English at home from the age of 9 with a teacher and continued at the Parvin Cultural Association and the Iran-US Association.

Family

Farrokhzad siblings were the poet

Forough Farrokhzad Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...

and entertainer Fereydoun Farrokhzad. She has two daughters: Alaleh and Afsaneh.

References

External links

Official Farrokhzad Foundation Website
Maintained by her second daughter (Laleh Bahman) in Vancouver, Canada.
Official website
20th-century Iranian poets Iranian women poets 1933 births 2016 deaths Iranian translators Iranian encyclopedists Iranian women short story writers 20th-century Iranian women writers 21st-century Iranian women writers 21st-century Iranian poets People from Nowshahr 20th-century translators {{Iran-writer-stub