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List of Iranian women writers

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This is a list of women writers who were born in Iran or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

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  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Nobel peace prize winner, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
  • Amanda Enayati (born 1967), columnist, communication strategist
  • Camelia Entekhabifard (born 1973), poet, journalist, and memoirist, living in the United States
  • Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), acclaimed classical poet, essayist
  • Mansoureh Ettehadieh (graduated 1956), historian, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist
  • Tahereh Eybod (born 1963), author, researcher, instructor, critic, and journalist.

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  • Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), influential poet, film director, poetry translated into several languages including English[1]
  • Pooran Farrokhzad, since the 1990s: poet, playwright, encyclopedist
  • Nazila Fathi (born 1970), author and Iranian correspondent for The New York Times

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  • Mahsati (c.1089–c.1159), early Persian poet writing in quatrains
  • Marsha Mehran (1977–2014), widely translated novelist, author of Pomegranate Soup; she lived in Argentina, the United States, Australia and Ireland.
  • Mozhgan Babamarandi is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction, since 1996
  • Farzaneh Milani, Iranian-American educator, since early 1990s: non-fiction writer, poet
  • Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist, memoirist, author of Lipstick Jihad, now living in London
  • Roza Montazemi (c.1921–2009), popular cookbook writer
  • Minoo Moshiri, essayist, translator and journalist
  • Granaz Moussavi (born 1976), Iranian-Australian poet, screenwriter, film director

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  • Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (2005)

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  • Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
  • Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), Iranian-Armenian novelist, works translated into several languages[3][1]

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  • Táhirih, pseudonym of Fatimah Baraghani (c.1814–1852), poet, theologian
  • Goli Taraghi (born 1939), novelist, short story writer[1]
  • Niloufar Talebi, memoirist, nonfiction writer, literary translator, multidisciplinary artist

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Mannani, Manijeh; Thompson, Veronica (2015-09-30). Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature. Athabasca University Press. ISBN 978-1-927356-86-9.
  2. ^ Scruton, Roger (2008-03-24). "Obituary: Shusha Guppy". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  3. ^ a b c Fathi, Nazila (2005-06-29). "Women Writing Novels Emerge as Stars in Iran". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  4. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  5. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri".
  6. ^ "Hamideh Jahangiri — Encyclopédie Wikimonde Plus".
  7. ^ Mojadad, Ida (2019-03-21). "We Are Here, We Have Always Been Here". SF Weekly. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  8. ^ Ravani, Sarah (March 25, 2019). "How to celebrate the Persian New Year". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved 2021-12-08.