Forough Farrokhzad

1935 — 1967

Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; 29 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. (born 1935.) Their work has been subject to censorship or banning challenges.