A modern voice
Forough Farrokhzad was born in Tehran in 1934 and published her first poems as a young woman. Her later books, including Another Birth, were among the most important in modern Persian poetry. She wrote in plain, personal language about herself and the world around her, in free verse rather than the old forms.
The House Is Black
In 1962 she made a short documentary about a leper colony, The House Is Black, a landmark of Iranian cinema. She died in a car accident in Tehran in 1967 at the age of 32.
