Inoyat Hojieva ( tg, Иноят Ҳоҷиева), mostly known as Farzona ( tg, Фарзона) is a
Tajik poet
and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award.
Life
She was influenced by
Forough Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad ( fa, فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast,* feminist author.Forugh Farrokhzad died at the age ...
and other
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
poets, such as
Firdowsi
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, death_date = 1019 or 1025 (87 years old)
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and
Rumi.
Farzona's works are well known throughout Persian-speaking countries. She is known as ''
Forough of Tajikistan''. Her frequently playful and witty poetry draws on rich traditions of Persian literature in a rather humorous way.
In late 1980, she wrote a poem called "To the Nation that Gave Birth to
Ahmad Zohir".
Works
*''Farzaneh Khojandi poems'', Enitharmon Press and the Poetry Translation Centre, (Sept 2008), translators: Jo Shapcott, Narguess Farzad,
See also
*
Modern Tajik literature
References
External links
Farzaneh Khojandi, a brief biography from the Poetry Translation Centre site (in English)
Farzaneh Khojandi's Flute Player (in English)
Farzaneh Khojandi
Flute_Player Farzaneh Khojandi
* R M Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian" , Iran Society, Kolkata, 2010
Tajik poets
Persian-language poets
Tajikistani women poets
20th-century Tajikistani poets
1960 births
Living people
Persian-language women poets
21st-century Tajikistani poets
People from Khujand
20th-century Tajikistani writers
20th-century Tajikistani women writers
21st-century Tajikistani writers
21st-century Tajikistani women writers
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