Many thanks to "Lost Soul Studios"
With a body like a leather tablecloth
with two large and hard breasts,
in bed with a drunk, a madman, a tramp
one can stain the innocence of love.
From "Wind-Up Doll"
www.forughfarrokhzad.org
Self Portray
1935 Forugh was born on January 5, in Tehran into a large family, the third of seven children.
1950 At fifteen after graduating from junior high school, she transferred to Kamalolmolk Technical School, where she studied dressmaking and painting. Both subjects had great appeal for her. She later recalled that she felt lighter in mind and that her poetry came more easily to her after dressmaking class. As for painting, Forugh found in it a permanent, second avenue of artistic expression.
1951 At sixteen Forugh fell in love and decided to marry her cousin Parviz Shapoor over the objections of families mainly because of Shapur's age.
1952 A year later Forugh's first and only son "Kamyar" was born.
1954 Forugh and Parviz Shapoor separated.
1955 Forugh's first collection, titled Asir (The Captive), contains forty-four poems was published.
1955 In September of 1955 Forugh suffered a nervous breakdown and was taken to a psychiatric clinic.
1956 In July Forugh left Iran for the first time on a nine-months trip to Europe.
1956 Forugh's second volume of verse, containing twenty-five short lyrics, called Divar (The Wall), was published, dedicated to her former husband.
1958 Forugh's third collection Esian (Rebellion), appeared and securely established her as promising yet notorious poet.
1958 Forugh's relationship with the controversial writer and cinematographer Ebrahim Golestan began and remained important in the poet's personal life until her death.
1962 Forugh made a ..ary movie about a leper's colony, titled "The House Is Black". The movie was acclaimed internationally and won several prizes.
1963 UNESCO produced a thirty minutes movie about Forugh. Also Bernardo Bertolucci came to Iran to Interview her and decided to produce a fifteen minutes movie about the poet's life.
1964 Forugh's fourth poetry collection, Tavallodi Digar (Another Birth), contained thirty-five poems which the poet had composed over a period of nearly six years was published.
1965 Forugh's fifth collection of verse called "Let Us Believe In The Beginning Of The Cold Season" is in print and was published after her death.
1967 On Monday February 14 Forugh visited her mother, who later recalled their conversation over lunch as the nicest that they ever had. From her mother's home, on the way back, with Forugh driving, her jeep station wagon swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and struck a wall. Thrown from her car, at the height of her creativity and barely thirty-two Forugh Farrokhzad died of head injuries. She was buried beneath the falling snow in the Zahiro-Doleh in Tehran.
