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Major Iranian poet who was an early feminist and one of her country's first important female writers. Name variations: Farrough, Foroogh, Furogh, or Furugh Farrukhzad or Farrokhzaad or Farrokhzād.

Pronunciation: Four-UGH Farroch-ZHAHD. Born Forugh Farrokhzad in Tehran, Iran, on January 5, 1935; died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Tehran, on February 14, 1967; daughter of Mohammed Farrokhzad (a colonel in the Iranian Army) and Turan Vaziri Tabar Farrokhzad; attended a coeducational secondary school and a girls' high school as far as the ninth grade in Tehran; attended the Kamalolmolk Technical School; married Parviz Shapur, in 1951 (divorced 1954); children: one son.

First poems published in Tehran newspapers and magazines (1953); had nervous breakdown (1954); had love affair with Nader Naderpur (1954–56); made first trip abroad (1956); became assistant atEbrahim Golestan's film studio and began love affair with Golestan (1