Forugh Farrokhzad

Born 29 December 1934 in Iran

Died 13 February 1967 (aged 32)

Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد‎‎; December 29, 1934 – February 13, 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view.