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Simin Daneshvar

1921 - 2012

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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. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit; in 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be published. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simin Daneshvar is the 3,719th most popular writer (up from 3,891st in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Iran (up from 344th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simin Daneshvar ranks 3,719 out of 7,302. Before her are Kim Stanley Robinson, Andreï Makine, Arnošt Lustig, Mary Sidney, Lope de Rueda, and Antun Mihanović. After her are Georgi Sava Rakovski, Reginald Rose, Carolina Coronado, Evgeny Schwartz, Stevan Sremac, and Leslie Stephen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Simin Daneshvar ranks 236. Before her are Ursula Franklin, Jean Robic, Carmen Laforet, Kathleen Antonelli, Harry Schell, and Joseph A. Walker. After her are Ziya Bunyadov, Samuel T. Cohen, Edith Farkas, Ernesto Vidal, Bengt Danielsson, and Alenush Terian. Among people deceased in 2012, Simin Daneshvar ranks 212. Before her are Albert George Wilson, Christian Marin, Andy Griffith, Jon Finch, Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, and Ċensu Tabone. After her are Ann Curtis, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Georgi Lozanov, Jack Taylor, James Farentino, and Peter Carsten.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 314 out of 631. Before her are Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Sami Yusuf (1980), Jamshid Amouzegar (1923), Saib Tabrizi (1592), Dariush Mehrjui (1939), and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945). After her are Mohsen Makhmalbaf (1957), Al-Birjandi (null), Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari (1906), Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Kushyar Gilani (971), and Mohsen Rezaee (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 42. Before her are Samad Behrangi (1939), Nima Yooshij (1897), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), and Saib Tabrizi (1592). After her are Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Simin Behbahani (1927), Ibn Bibi (1250), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Iraj Mirza (1874), and Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (1001).

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