List Of Iranian Women Writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Iran or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

*Masoumeh Abad (born 1962), activist, politician, and non-fiction author
* Janet Afary (born 1960), feminist, historian, non-fiction writer
*Mahnaz Afkhami (born 1941), feminist, non-fiction writer, now in the United States
* Pegah Ahmadi (born 1974), poet, critic, translator
* Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
*Jaleh Amouzgar (born 1939), linguist, anthropologist, academic
*Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), pilot, poet, short story writer, artist, now living in Sweden, writes in Persian, Swedish and English
*Lady Amin (1886–1983), mystic, author of works on Islamic sciences
* Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
*Noushafarin Ansari (born 1939), librarian, educator, journalist
*Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848), Kurdish poet, philosopher, historian
*Mina Assadi (born 1943), poet, journalist, living in Sweden
* Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (c.1858–1921), feminist, literary historian
*Ghazaleh Alizadeh (born 1947), writer, poet

B

* Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (born 1954), film director, screenwriter
*Najmieh Batmanglij (born 1957), Iranian-American cookbook writer
*Simin Behbahani (1927–2014), acclaimed poet
* Niloofar Beyzaie (born 1967), playwright, theatre director, living in German
*Taraneh Boroumand playwright, writer, poet, translator

D

*Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012), acclaimed early female novelist, short story writer, translator, educator
*Soraya Darabi (born 1955), journalist, trade union activist
*Sahar Delijani (born 1983), widely translated novelist, author of '' Children of the Jacaranda Tree'', living between the United States and Italy
* Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882–1961), feminist, journalist
*Firoozeh Dumas (born 1965), Iranian-American memoirist, humorous writer, author of ''Funny in Farsi''

E

* Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Nobel peace prize winner, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
* Amanda Enayati (born 1967), columnist, communication strategist
* Camelia Entekhabifard (born 1973), poet, journalist, memoirist, living in the United States
*Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), acclaimed classical poet, essayist
*Mansoureh Ettehadieh (graduated 1956), historian, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist

F

* Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), influential poet, film director, poetry translated into several languages including English
*Pooran Farrokhzad, since the 1990s: poet, playwright, encyclopedist
*Nazila Fathi (born 1970), author and Iranian correspondent for ''The New York Times''

G

* Zarah Ghahramani (born 1981), Iranian-born Australian memoirist, author of '' My Life as a Traitor''
*Shusha Guppy (1935–2008), singer, memoirist, writer, critic, journal editor; she lived in London

H

* Fattaneh Haj Seyed Javadi (born 1945), best selling novelist
*Roya Hakakian (born 1966), Iranian-American poet, journalist, memoirist, essayist, television producer
* Maryam Heydarzadeh (born 1977), poet, lyricist
* Maryam Hooleh (born 1978), poet, novelist, filmmaker

J

* Rosa Jamali (born 1977), poet, playwright, translator

K

*Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), widely translated poet, human rights activist, living in the United States
*Mehrangiz Kar (born 1944), women's rights activist, essayist, author of ''Crossing the Red Line''
*Persis Karim (born 1962), literature scholar, author, and professor; director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University; lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
*Leila Kasra (1939–1989), poet, lyricist
*Fatemeh Keshavarz (born 1952), poet, educator, literary historian, living in the United States
*Porochista Khakpour (born 1978), Iranian-American novelist, essayist

L

*Shahla Lahiji (born 1942), feminist, translator, publisher

M

*Mahsati (c.1089–c.1159), early Persian poet writing in quatrains
*Marsha Mehran (1977–2014), widely translated novelist, author of ''Pomegranate Soup''; she lived in Argentina, the United States, Australia and Ireland.
* Mozhgan Babamarandi is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction, since 1996
*Farzaneh Milani, Iranian-American educator, since early 1990s: non-fiction writer, poet
*Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist, memoirist, author of ''Lipstick Jihad'', now living in London
* Roza Montazemi (c.1921–2009), popular cookbook writer
*Minoo Moshiri, essayist, translator and journalist
*Granaz Moussavi (born 1976), Iranian-Australian poet, screenwriter, film director

N

* Azar Nafisi (born 1955), feminist, memoirist, literary critic, author of ''Reading Lolita in Tehran''
*Afsaneh Najmabadi (born 1946), Iranian-American historian, educator, literary historian, author of ''The Story of the Daughters of Quchan''
* Marina Nemat (born 1965), memoirist

O

*Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of ''A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces'' (2005)

P

* Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
*Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), Iranian-Armenian novelist, works translated into several languages

S

*Sepideh Shamlou (born 1968), writer
* Shadi Sadr (born 1974), lawyer, journalist, women's rights activist
* Nazi Safavi (born 1967), novelist, author of ''Hallway to Paradise''
*Tahereh Saffarzadeh (born 1936), poet, non-fiction writer, translator, educator
*Parinoush Saniee, since 2003, novelist, author of the widely translated ''The Book of Fate''
*Homa Sarshar, Iranian-American author, activist, feminist and journalist
* Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), Iranian-born French novelist, illustrator, children's writer
* Louisa Shafia, Iranian-American chef and cookbook writer
* Mahasti Shahrokhi (born 1956), novelist, poet
*Siba Shakib, novelist, filmmaker, author of the widely translated ''Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep'' (2002)
* Shahla Sherkat (born 1956), journalist, feminist writer, journal publisher
* Zandokht Shirazi (1900–1953), feminist, poet, educator
*Marzieh Sotoudeh (born 1957), Iranian-Canadian short story writer, translator

T

* Táhirih, pseudonym of Fatimah Baraghani (c.1814–1852), poet, theologian
* Goli Taraghi (born 1939), novelist, short story writer
* Tahereh Eybod, author, researcher, and critic and journalist, known for her children's literature.
*Niloufar Talebi, memoirist, nonfiction writer, literary translator, multidisciplinary artist

V

*Fariba Vafi (born 1963), novelist
*Lobat Vala (born 1930), poet, feminist, now living in London

Y

* Chista Yasrebi (born 1968), writer, literary critic, translator, publisher
* Elham Yaghoubian, since the 1990s: novelist, living in the United States

See also

*List of women writers

References

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Iranian women writers, List of
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