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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 368,483 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.

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  • 370k

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  • 60.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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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