Simin Daneshvar

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Simin Dāneshvar[3] (Persian: سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian[4] academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator… more

SUVASHUN (Suvašun 1969, tr. M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Savushun, A Novel About Modern Iran, 1990; and Roxane Zand, A Persian Requiem, 1991, FIGURE 1), the most acclaimed novel of the prominent writer Simin Daneshvar (b. Shiraz, 1921, d. Tehran, 2012), and the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian female fiction writer….. more

Simin Daneshvar born in 1921 in Shiraz, she was educated in a missionary school and became fluent in English. She began her writing career as early as 1935, when she was still an eighth-grader. Her first article, “Winter Is Not Unlike Our Life4…. more

Simin Daneshvar, who was the most potent surviving symbol of the vibrancy of 20th-century literature in Iran, died on March 8 in Tehran. She was 90….. more

The first Iranian woman to publish under her own name, she explored the country’s postwar occupation in the novel Savushun… more

Translated Stories of Simin Daneshvar…. more

Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور)‎ (28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time… more

Tehran, IRNA – Simin Daneshvar, was the first Iranian female novelist who created masterpieces, thus contributing greatly to the already rich Persian literature, such as her ‘Soo va Shoon’ (Vailing) immortal novel, that is translated into many languages and is read broadly by millions of people around the globe… more