Ghazaleh Alizadeh ( fa, غزاله علیزاده ); 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996) was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and her husband

Bijan Elahi Bijan Elahi ( fa, بیژن الهی; ; 7 July 1945 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian modernist poet and translator. He was for most of his life known as a leading figure of a modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical a ...

had a daughter called Salma. She also adopted two girls who were survivors of the 1961

Qazvin Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanization, Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Qazvin Province, Province of Qazvin in Iran. ...

earthquake.

Biography

She was an introvert, smart, and energetic student at school. She got her diploma in

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the t ...

from Mahasti High School and at the same time became a

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetariani ...

. She received her BA in Political Sciences from Tehran University, then went to France to study philosophy and cinema at

Sorbonne University Sorbonne University (french: Sorbonne Université; la Sorbonne: 'the Sorbonne') is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sor ...

. She initially went to Paris to pursue her PhD in law, but changed her major to

illuminationism Illuminationism (Persian حكمت اشراق ''hekmat-e eshrāq'', Arabic: حكمة الإشراق ''ḥikmat al-ishrāq'', both meaning "Wisdom of the Rising Light"), also known as ''Ishrāqiyyun'' or simply ''Ishrāqi'' (Persian اشراق, Arab ...

and wanted to write her dissertation on Molavi, but she left it due to the sudden death of her father. She started her literary career by writing short stories in Mashhad. Her major work was the novel '' Khaneye Edrisiha'' ("The Edrissis' House" (خانه ادریسیها)). Her short stories include "The Crossroad", "After Summer", and "The In-transitory Journey", and her other novels include ''Two Landscapes'' and ''Tehran Nights''. Some of her works have been translated into English by Rosa Jamali. While she was suffering from cancer, she attempted suicide twice. She finally committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree in Javaher Deh in

Ramsar, Mazandaran , sports_nickname = , motto = The Paradise on Earth (Behesht-e rooy-e Zamin) , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_seal = , image_map = , mapsize ...

in May 1996. Her body was interred at Emamzadeh Taher cemetery. A documentary movie, '' Ghazaleh Alizadeh Trial'', has been produced about her life.

Books

Novels

*'' Two views'' *'' Edrissis' House'' (two volumes) *'' Tehran's nights''

Stories

*" After summer" *" Impassable travel"

Other

*'' Halls'' *'' House's dream and downfall nightmare''

References

External links

نشریه الکترونیکی سه پنج (صدای مستقل ادبیات ایران)انتشار صدای غزاله علیزاده

دانشجویان «محاکات غزاله علیزاده» و «نقل‌گرد آفرید» را می‌بینند

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091220023255/http://www.radiozamaneh.org/radiocity/2007/03/post_164.html مستند "غزاله علیزاده" کلید می‌خورد
نگاهی کوتاه به رمان شبهای تهران. سایت آفتاب

«"محاکات غزاله علیزاده" اجازه حضور نیافت»

فیلم زندگی "غزاله علیزاده"اردیبهشت آماده نمایش می‌شود. روزنامه آفتاب یزد

نافه، ویژه غزاله علیزاده

* * ttp://thehouseofedrisis.yolasite.com/ Ghazaleh Alizadeh's THE HOUSE OF EDRISIS, translated by Rosa Jamali 1947 births 1996 deaths Iranian women poets Iranian women novelists Iranian novelists Suicides by hanging in Iran University of Tehran alumni Burials at Emamzadeh Taher Iranian women short story writers 20th-century Iranian short story writers People from Mashhad 20th-century Iranian women writers 20th-century Iranian poets 21st-century Iranian women writers 21st-century Iranian poets 1996 suicides {{Iran-writer-stub