Farrukhzād, Furūgh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Norozi, Nahid
Leiden
Brill
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Furūgh Zamān Farrukhzād (1313-45sh/1935-67), among the greatest Iranian poets of the twentieth century, was born in Tehran to a family that valued art and literature. She attended school in Tehran and was married in 1951 at the age of sixteen, becoming a mother in the following year. Renouncing family life, she divorced her husband in 1954, considering marital life an obstacle to her literary passions. Farrukhzād began to compose verse in a classical style while still a teenager. Her first poetic collection, titled Asīr ("The captive") was