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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 362,664 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Forough Farrokhzad is the 1,219th most popular writer (up from 1,238th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Iran (down from 143rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 1,219 out of 5,755Before her are Vivant Denon, Chernorizets Hrabar, Giovanni Papini, Betty Friedan, Jeffery Deaver, and Jussi Adler-Olsen. After her are Alexander Kielland, Ján Kollár, Cornelius Gallus, Carson McCullers, Victorien Sardou, and Antipater of Sidon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 60Before her are Lorenzo Bandini, Toni Sailer, Pranab Mukherjee, Pepe, Richard Kuklinski, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma. After her are Viktor Bryukhanov, John Saxon, Akira Kitaguchi, Maj Sjöwall, Elsa Martinelli, and John G. Avildsen. Among people deceased in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 51Before her are Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Lorenzo Bandini, Tamara Bunke, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, and Gus Grissom. After her are Carson McCullers, Hugo Gernsback, Luigi Tenco, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Ed White, and Zinaida Serebriakova.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 146 out of 528Before her are Sibawayh (760), Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226), Osroes I (50), Harpagus (-700), Al-Bayhaqi (994), and Al-Karaji (953). After her are Barbet Schroeder (1941), Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203), Phraates V (-100), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Musa al-Sadr (1928), and Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 15Before her are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), and Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724). After her are Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Táhirih (1817), Baba Tahir (947), Daqiqi (1000), and Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281).