WRITER

Forough Farrokhzad

1935 - 1967

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Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Forough Farrokhzad has received more than 362,664 page views. Her biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Forough Farrokhzad is the 1,159th most popular writer (up from 1,216th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Iran (down from 146th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Iranian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 360k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sin
Translations into English, FICTION, General
For the first time, the work of Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad is being brought to English-speaking readers through the perspective of a translator who is a poet in her own right, fluent in both Persian and English and intimately familiar with each culture. Sin includes the entirety of Farrokhzad's last book, numerous selections from her fourth and most enduring book, Reborn, and selections from her earlier work and creates a collection that is true to the meaning, the intention, and the music of the original poems. Farrokhzad was the most significant female Iranian poet of the twentieth century, as revolutionary as Russia's Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva and America's Plath and Sexton. She wrote with a sensuality and burgeoning political consciousness that pressed against the boundaries of what could be expressed by a woman in 1950s and 1960s Iran. She paid a high price for her art, shouldering the disapproval of society and her family, having her only child taken away, and spending time in mental institutions. Farrokhzad died in a car accident in 1967 at the age of thirty-two. Sin is a tribute to the work and life of this remarkable poet.
2007
Bride of Acacias
1982
Another Birth
1981
Parikhani poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad (spoken CD)
2002
A Conversation with Modern Persian Poets
History and criticism, Interviews, Persian Poets
2004
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
Translations into English
2022

Page views of Forough Farrokhzads by language

Over the past year Forough Farrokhzad has had the most page views in the with 419,167 views, followed by Turkish (28,638), and French (15,940). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (137.73%), Basque (78.26%), and Malagasy (69.54%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 1,159 out of 7,302. Before her are Vivant Denon, Ljudevit Gaj, Jernej Kopitar, Comtessa de Dia, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, and Bolesław Prus. After her are Alcman, Rosalía de Castro, Aleksis Kivi, Deepak Chopra, Sankardev, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 59. Before her are John Saxon, Satoshi Ōmura, Masahito, Prince Hitachi, Monique Wittig, Ernesto Laclau, and John G. Avildsen. After her are Udo Lattek, Lorenzo Bandini, Wim Duisenberg, Pranab Mukherjee, Elsa Martinelli, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma. Among people deceased in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 50. Before her are Joseph Pilates, Abdel Hakim Amer, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Luigi Tenco, Anthony Mann, and Hugo Gernsback. After her are Lorenzo Bandini, Zinaida Serebriakova, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Gus Grissom, Tamara Bunke, and Ed White.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 149 out of 631. Before her are Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Al-Juwayni (1028), Teispes (-675), Phraates IV (-90), Al-Bayhaqi (994), and Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922). After her are Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864), Amytis of Media (-630), Al-Khazini (1077), and Al-Karaji (953).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 15. Before her are Jami (1414), Doris Lessing (1919), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), and Ali Shariati (1933). After her are Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Baba Tahir (947), Táhirih (1817), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), and Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281).

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