Forugh Farrokhzad

Birthday: December 29th, 1934 Date of Death: February 13th, 1967 Place of Birth: Iran

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.