Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian literature and women’s studies at the University of Virginia, helped translate the works of poet Simin Behbahani, the acclaimed “Lioness of Iran,” from Persian into English, an endeavor for which Milani and collaborator Kaveh Safa won the 2008 Lois Roth Prize for Literary Translation from Persian. Milani, the author of […]
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Thousands Attend Iranian Poet Behbahani’s Funeral
Thousands of Iranians, including prominent intellectuals, artists, and rights activists, have attended a funeral ceremony held in Tehran for celebrated poet and women’s rights advocate Simin Behbahani. Behbahani, known as Iran’s lady of “ghazal” for her use of a traditional genre that employs a series of couplets, died on August 19 in a hospital […]
Legendary Iranian poetess Simin Behbahani passes away
After being in coma state for almost 13 days, the legendary Iranian poetess Simin Behbahani passed away in Pars Hospital of Tehran this morning, she was 87. Behbahani known as ‘the great Iranian lady of Persian ghazal’ (a form of Persian lyric poetry similar to the Western sonnet) was suffering from respiratory and […]
Persian poet Simin Behbahani gets Janus Pannonius award
Contemporary Persian poet Simin Behbahani received this year’s Janus Pannonius Award in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs on Thursday.The prize set up by Hungarian PEN Club chair Geza Szocs last year comes with a cash purse of 50,000 euros. It recognises poets whose life work has contributed to promoting dialogue between nations and […]