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Poet Simin Behbahani, 87, The “Lioness Of Iran”

PEOPLE Posted: August 21, 2014 2:28 pm

A two-time Nobel Prize nominee and one of the country’s most revered writers, “she was a fierce feminist who subverted the form of Iran’s traditional ghazals, love poems traditionally written by male admirers to women. Behbahani flipped the ghazals and wrote hers to men. She used them to write about a mother’s anguish over the loss of her son in the Iran-Iraq war and the horrors of stoning women to death.”

PEOPLE Published: 08.20.14

Read the story in The Washington Post Published: 08.20.14

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