As modern Iran's first female novelist, Simin Daneshvar, who has died aged 90, knew a lot about adversity. Professionally, she had to make her way in a literary scene dominated by men; in her ...
Simin Daneshvar’s first novel, Savushun, is one of the most powerful literary episodes in Persian fiction [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY – Much of the world’s attention was drawn to the confounding ...
Written by Mona Ahmadi, the play tries to depict the life stories of the two prominent female authors. A scholar, novelist and translator, Daneshvar (1921-2012) is considered as the first major ...
TEHRAN --- Eminent author and translator Simin Daneshvar, known as the first Iranian female novelist, died at her home in Tehran. She was 90. Daneshvar died of natural causes associated with old age ...