Simin Daneshvar

Simin Daneshvar was born on 28 April 1921 in Shiraz, the daughter of a physician and of a painter who for a time directed the city's school of fine arts for girls. A student of Persian literature in Tehran, she published in 1948 the first short story collection by an Iranian woman and in 1949 defended a thesis on beauty in Persian literature. Married in 1950 to Jalal Al-e Ahmad, she studied at Stanford in 1952 under Wallace Stegner, then taught archaeology and art history at the University of Tehran. She died in Tehran on 8 March 2012.

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• NovelSavushunسووشونSimin Daneshvar · 1969Literature