Simin Behbahani

Simin Behbahani سیمین بهبهانی Iran Poet

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Simin Behbahani, the prominent Iranian poet, is reading one of her poems for Iran-E-Man (My Iran) TV in Portland Oregon. This piece was recorded in 1995 at Mr. Mokalla's house located in Salem Oregon. Simin Beh'bahāni (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی‎) (born July 20, 1927, Tehran, Iran) is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding amongst the contemporary Persian poets. She is Iran's national poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran. She has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, and has "received many literary accolades around the world." Simin Behbahani, whose real name is Simin Khalili (سيمين خليلي), is the daughter of Abbās Khalili (عباس خلیلی), poet, writer and Editor of the Eghdām (Action) newspaper,[5] and Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun (فخرعظمی ارغون), poet and teacher of the French language.[6] Abbās Khalili (1893--1971) wrote poetry in both Persian and Arabic and translated some 1100 verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh into Arabic.[7] Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun (1898--1966) was one of the progressive women of her time and a member of Kānun-e Nesvān-e Vatan'khāh (Association of Patriotic Women) between 1925 and 1929. In addition to her membership of Hezb-e Democrāt (Democratic Party) and Kānun-e Zanān (Women's Association), she was for a time (1932) Editor of the Āyandeh-ye Iran (Future of Iran) newspaper. She taught French at the secondary schools Nāmus, Dār ol-Mo'allemāt and No'bāvegān in Tehran Simin Behbahani started writing poetry at twelve and published her first poem at the age of fourteen. She used the "Char Pareh" style of Nima Yooshij and subsequently turned to ghazal. Behbahani contributed to a historic development by adding theatrical subjects and daily events and conversations to poetry using the ghazal style of poetry. She has expanded the range of the traditional Persian verse forms and has produced some of the most significant works of the Persian literature in 20th century. She is President of The Iranian Writers' Association and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 and 2002. In early March 2010 she was refused permission to leave the country. As she was about to board a plane to Paris, police detained her and interrogated her "all night long". She was released but without her passport. Her English translator (Farzaneh Milani) expressed surprise at the arrest as detention as Behbahani is 82 and nearly blind. "We all thought that she was untouchable. --- Simin Dāneshvar Passed Away سيمين دانشور عصر امروز (پنج شنبه 18اسفند ماه) پس از يک دوره بيماري در منزلش در سن 90سالگي از دنيا رفت. به گزارش ايسنا سيمين دانشور (متولد 8 ارديبهشت سال 1300خورشيدي در شيراز) نويسنده و مترجم ايراني است. وي نخستين زن ايراني است که به شکل حرفه‌اي در زبان فارسي داستان نوشت. مهم‌ترين اثر او رمان سووشون است که نثري ساده دارد و به 17 زبان ترجمه شده است و از جمله پرفروش‌ترين آثار ادبيات داستاني در ايران محسوب مي‌شود. دانشور همچنين عضو و نخستين رئيس کانون نويسندگان ايران بود. اخبار مراسم تشييع پيکر بانوي پيشکسوت ادبيات داستاني ايران متعاقبا اعلام خواهد شد. Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎) (born on April 28, 1921 in Shiraz, Persia (Iran) - March 8, 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit. In 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be published. The first novel by an Iranian woman was her Savushun ("Mourners of Siyâvash," 1969), which has become Iran's bestselling novel ever. Daneshvar's Playhouse, a collection of five stories and two autobiographical pieces, is the first volume of translated stories by an Iranian woman author As an author and translator, Daneshvar writes sensitively about the Iranian woman and her life. Daneshvar's most successful work Savushun,[4][5] a novel about settled and tribal life in and around her home-town of Shiraz, was published in 1969. A best-seller of all Persian novels, it has undergone at least sixteen reprints and has been translated into many languages. She has also contributed to the periodicals Sokhan and Alefba. In 1981, she completed a monograph on Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ghoroub-e Jalal (The Sunset of Jalal's Days).