WRITER

Forough Farrokhzad

1935 - 1967

Photo of Forough Farrokhzad

Icon of person Forough Farrokhzad

Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; 28 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Forough Farrokhzad is the 1,562nd most popular writer (down from 1,158th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Iran (down from 149th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Iranian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Forough Farrokhzad by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 1,562 out of 7,302. Before her are Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Banine, John Brunner, Shammai, Felice Romani, and Joseph Karo. After her are Lina Heydrich, Al-Khansa, Ödön von Horváth, Jean de Meun, Gottfried August Bürger, and Hermann Bahr.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 89. Before her are Maj Sjöwall, Ken Kesey, Jack Kemp, Floyd Patterson, Samak Sundaravej, and Dinkha IV. After her are John Phillips, Charles Duke, Paula Rego, Mary Berry, Ján Popluhár, and John G. Avildsen. Among people deceased in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 78. Before her are Günther Blumentritt, Marcel Aymé, Roger B. Chaffee, Primo Carnera, Osvaldo Moles, and Stanisław Sosabowski. After her are Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Paul Muni, Jane Darwell, Basil Rathbone, Hans Ledwinka, and Walter A. Shewhart.

Others Born in 1935

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1967

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 187 out of 631. Before her are Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Mehdi Bazargan (1907), Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Timur Shah Durrani (1748), Al-Karaji (953), and Ahmad ibn Rustah (null). After her are Barbara (null), Al-Baydawi (1201), Arsames (-550), Abdullah Mirza (1433), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), and Sati Beg (1300).

Others born in Iran

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Forough Farrokhzad ranks 19. Before her are Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Ali Shariati (1933), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), and Sadegh Hedayat (1903). After her are Baba Tahir (947), Azar Nafisi (1955), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Asadi Tusi (999), and Daqiqi (1000).

Iranian born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous