Forugh Farrokhzad

Poet Forugh FARROKHZAD (1935-1967, Tehran) is the most famous woman in the history of Persian literature. As a divorcee poet in Tehran, Farrokhzad attracted much attention and considerable disapproval. She had several short lived relationships with men, found some respite in a nine-month trip to Europe, and in 1958 she met Ebrahim Golestan, a controversial film-maker and writer with whom she established a relationship that lasted until her death in an automobile accident at thirty-two years of age.