Parvin E'tesami

Rakhshandeh E'tesami, known as Parvin E'tesami, was born in Tabriz on 16 March 1907, the daughter of Yusef E'tesami, a man of letters and deputy, who taught her Arabic and the Persian classics. In Tehran, where the family settled early on, she read her verses before her father's friends, Dehkhoda or Bahar. After leaving the Iran Bethel, an American girls' school, in 1924, she taught there and in 1926 refused to instruct the queen. Married in 1934 to a cousin of her father, she returned to her family after ten weeks, and the divorce followed in 1935. In 1936 she refused a medal, and she died on 5 April 1941 of typhoid fever.

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• Poetryدیوان پروین اعتصامیParvin E'tesami · 1935Literature