Category
page 120th-century Iranian women writers

Farah Pahlavi
queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979

Marjane Satrapi
Iranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author (born 1969)
Simin Daneshvar
Iranian writer (1921–2012)
Mahnaz Afkhami
Minister of gender equality, Human rights and gender equality activist
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi
Iranian writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures in the women's movement of Iran.
Laleh Bakhtiar
Iranian academic (1938-2020)
Sediqeh Dowlatabadi
Iranian activist
Mohtaram Eskandari
Iranian journalist
Jamileh Alamolhoda
wife of Ebrahim Raisi
Farshid Moussavi
Iranian-born British architect
Marsha Mehran
Iranian novelist (1977-2014)
Louisa Aslanian
WWII French-Armenian resistance activist

Janet Afary
Author, feminist activist and researcher of history, religious studies and women studies.
Mina Assadi
Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter
Moniro Ravanipour
Iranian writer
Shusha Guppy
writer, editor and singer (1935–2008)
Chahla Chafiq
Iranian writer and sociologist
Négar Djavadi
French-Iranian writer
Khadijeh Afzal Vaziri
Iranian journalist, women's rights activist (1889–1981)
Mariam Behnam
Iranian-Emirati writer and activist
Munírih
wife of `Abdu'l-Bahá, prominent figure in the Bahá'í Faith
Sholeh Wolpe
Iranian writer (born 1962)
FakhrAfagh Parsa
Iranian journalist
Katayun Mazdapour
Iranian linguist