![]() ![]() When her father, a physician, died in 1941, Daneshvar was forced to find a job, as the family’s only source of income had been her father’s salary. She entered Tehran University and majored in Persian literature. Her first article, “Winter Is Not Unlike Our Life,” was published in a local Shiraz newspaper. She began her writing career as early as 1935, when she was still an eighth-grader. Born in 1921 in Shiraz, she was educated in a missionary school and became fluent in English. Daneshvar, like most contemporary Iranian writers, came from a middle-class family. Her masterpiece novel Savushun (Mourning for Siavash), published in 1969, is considered the climax of Persian novel writing. Her work has developed and matured since the late 1940s, and today she is known as one of Iran’s best fiction writers. Among contemporary writers of Iran, the majority of whom are men, one woman stands out: Simin Daneshvar. ![]()
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