Simin Behbahani
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Iranian poet (1927-2014)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Story of Zahra
- Ba ghalbe khad
- A Cup of Sin
- Maybe It's the Messiah Shayad Ke-masee Hast
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- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 25
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Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; 20 June 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporaneity poet, lyricist and activist. She was an icon of the modern Persian poetry, Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran.[1] She was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, and has "received many literary accolades around the world."[2] Her surname also appears as Bihbahani. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sim
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Tehran
- Place of death
- Tehran
- Father
- Abbas Khalili
- Mother
- Fahr-Ozma Arghun
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Educated at
- University of Tehran
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
- سیمین بهبهانی - Simin Behbahani.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of death
- 2014-08-19
- date of birth
- 1927-07-20
- Commons category
- Simin Behbahani
- place of burial
- Behesht-e Zahra
- name in native language
- سیمین بهبهانی
- birth name
- Siminbar Khalili
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
- writing language
- Persian
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