Simin Daneshvar

Iranian writer (1921–2012)

Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎; 28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. 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.

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