Simin daneshvar biography of alberta

Iranian writer

Simin Dāneshvar^[3] (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎; 28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian^[4] academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator.

She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist.

Simin Daneshvar () was often compared to the Scheherazade of A Thousand and One Nights.

She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Alberta in Simin Daneshvar.

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Simin Daneshvar is a distinguished contemporary Iranian writer and schol- ar.

Simin Daneshvar's “A City Like Paradise,” which is taken from her collection of short stories by the same title, portrays different female characters in.

Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time.^[5] Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit; in 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be published.

The first novel by an Iranian woman was her Savushun ("Mourners of Siyâvash", also known as A Persian Requiem,^[6] 1966), which went on to become a bestseller.^[7]Daneshvar's Playhouse, a collection of five stories and two autobiographical pieces, is the first volume of translated stories by an Iranian woman author.

Being the wife of the famous Iranian writer Jalal al-Ahma