Simin Daneshvar
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Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور in Persian, born 1921 in Shiraz, Iran) is a Persian novelist and translator.
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[edit] Education
Simin Daneshvar grew up in Shiraz where she received her early education. In 1942 she moved to Tehran where she studied Persian literature at Tehran University. Her dissertation, "Beauty as Treated in Persian Literature," was approved in 1949. In 1950, Daneshvar married the well-known Iranian short story writer and novelist Jalal Al-e Ahmad. In 1952, she traveled to the United States as a Fulbright Fellow working on creative writing at Stanford University. When she returned to Iran, she joined the faculty at Tehran University.
[edit] Works
As an author and translator, Daneshvar writes sensitively about the Iranian woman and her life. Daneshvar's most successful work Suvashun (The Mourners), a novel about settled and tribal life in and around her hometown of Shiraz, was published in 1969. A best-seller of all Persian novels, it has undergone at least fifteen reprints. She has also contributed to Sukhan and Alifba, and has translated some of the works of George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Alberto Moravia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Saroyan, and Arthur Schnitzler into Persian. A Land Like Paradise (Shahri chun Behesht) is the lead story of a collection she published in 1962.
[edit] Translations
- In India, Savushun is translated into Malayalam by S.A.Qudsi.
- Translation into German: Drama der Trauer - Savushun. Glaré Verlag, Frankfurt/Main 1997.
