Forough Farrokhzad

Forough Farrokhzad was born in Tehran in January 1935, the third of the seven children of a colonel. She studied painting and sewing, married at sixteen, against her family's wishes, the satirist Parviz Shapour, who took her to Ahvaz, and left him after three years; custody of their son was given to the father. Her collections, in which a woman spoke of desire in the first person, caused a scandal. Linked from 1958 to Ebrahim Golestan, she worked in his studio and studied cinema in England. She adopted the son of lepers and died in a car accident in Tehran, in February 1967, aged thirty-two.

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• CinemaThe House Is Blackخانه سیاه استForough Farrokhzad · 1963Cinema