Inoyat Hojieva (), mostly known as Farzona () is a
Tajik
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poet
and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award.
Life
She was influenced by
Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad (; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic,* feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32.
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and other
Persian
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poets, such as
Firdowsi
Abu'l-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi (also Firdawsi, ; 940 – 1019/1025) was a Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the greatest epic of Persian ...
and
Rumi
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi '' faqih'' (jurist), Maturidi theologian (''mutakallim''), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire ...
.
Farzona's works are well known throughout Persian-speaking countries. She is known as ''
Forough of Tajikistan''. Her frequently playful and witty poetry draws on rich traditions of Persian literature in a rather humorous way.
In late 1980, she wrote a poem called "To the Nation that Gave Birth to
Ahmad Zohir".
Works
*''Farzaneh Khojandi poems'', Enitharmon Press and the Poetry Translation Centre, (Sept 2008), translators: Jo Shapcott, Narguess Farzad,
See also
*
Modern Tajik literature
References
External links
Farzaneh Khojandi, a brief biography from the Poetry Translation Centre site (in English)
Farzaneh Khojandi's Flute Player (in English)
Farzaneh Khojandi
Flute_Player Farzaneh Khojandi
* R M Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian" , Iran Society, Kolkata, 2010
Tajik poets
Persian-language poets
Tajikistani women poets
20th-century Tajikistani poets
1960 births
Living people
Persian-language women poets
21st-century Tajikistani poets
People from Khujand
20th-century Tajikistani writers
20th-century Tajikistani women writers
21st-century Tajikistani writers
21st-century Tajikistani women writers
Tajik women
Tajik writers
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