Simin Daneshwar (April 28, 1921, Shiraz - March 8, 2012, Tehran ) is an Iranian writer and translator. She was the wife of Jalal Ale Ahmad and took an active part in the social and cultural activities of her husband. She was the first Iranian to professionally write a novel in Persian.
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Her main novel is “Crying for Siyavush ” with simple prose. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and is considered one of Iran’s best-selling literary works. Daneshwar was also a member and first head of the Iranian Writers Society.
Biography
Born in 1921 in Shiraz. Her father, Mohammad Ali Daneshwar, was a doctor, and her mother was the director of an art school for girls.
Simin received primary and secondary education in the English school "Mehrain" and according to the results of final exams she was awarded a diploma and recognized as the best student of the country.
Then Simin entered the University of Tehran at the Department of Literature to study Persian literature .
In 1942, after the death of his father, Simin begins to write articles for Tehran’s radio and the newspaper Iran under the pseudonym Anonymous from Shiraz.
In 1949, her short story collection Extinct Fire was published. It was the first storybook written by Iran and published. From this moment, she begins to write short stories. At that time, it was not accepted for a woman to be a writer. Simin described the lesson that Forug Farrohzad did in her poem. She wrote her first storybook Extinguished Fire at 22, and at 27, she published it. Of course, this collection was only her first experience. When she wanted to show him to Sadek Hedayat and find out what he thinks about this, he told her the following: “If I tell you how and what you should write, then it will not be you, so you need to go through a lot to find your way. " And Daneshwar continued: "I have already done this work." Sadek Hedayat and Fatima Sayah always inspired Simin to write stories. In the same year, on the way from Tehran to Shiraz, she met with the Iranian writer and thinker Jalal al-Ahmad. Two years later they got married.
In 1953, Daneshwar received a Fulbright scholarship and went to America at Stanford University , where she spent a year studying aesthetics. At the university, she studied with famous American teachers. At the same time, she writes two short stories in English, which are published in the United States.
Returning to Iran, Dr. Daneshwar begins studying at an art school.
In 1960, she became a teacher of archeology and art history at Tehran University.
Later, after the death of her husband, she published her novel “Crying for Siyavush,” which is considered one of Iran’s best-selling contemporary literary works.
Creativity
Among her works are the following: weeping along Siyavush, a wandering island, a wandering camel driver and a wandering mountain. She also translated a large number of works, for example: Chocolate soldier Bernard Shaw, Enemies of Chekhov , Cherry Orchard Chekhov and others. In addition to writing novels and translations, she wrote a huge number of short stories. She is undoubtedly one of the most influential figures in Persian literature. Simin Daneshwar, having had the flu , died on March 8, 2012 in her home in Tehran at the age of 90.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Simin Daneshvar dead - Iranian.com .