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List of Iranian women writers

This is a list of women writers who were born in Iran or whose writings are closely associated with that country.

A

  • Masoumeh Abad (born 1962), activist, politician, and non-fiction author
  • Janet Afary (born 1960), feminist, historian, non-fiction writer
  • Mahnaz Afkhami (born 1941), feminist, non-fiction writer, now in the United States
  • Pegah Ahmadi (born 1974), poet, critic, translator
  • Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
  • Jaleh Amouzgar (born 1939), linguist, anthropologist, academic
  • Akram Monfared Arya (born 1946), pilot, poet, short story writer, artist, now living in Sweden, writes in Persian, Swedish and English
  • Lady Amin (1886–1983), mystic, author of works on Islamic sciences
  • Mahshid Amirshahi (born 1937), novelist, short story writer, critic, journalist, translator
  • Noushafarin Ansari (born 1939), librarian, educator, journalist
  • Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848), Kurdish poet, philosopher, historian
  • Fakhr-Ozma Arghun (1898–1966), poet, teacher, journalist, feminist
  • Mina Assadi (born 1943), poet, journalist, living in Sweden
  • Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (c.1858–1921), feminist, literary historian
  • Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1949–1996), writer, poet

B

D

E

  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Nobel peace prize winner, human rights activist, non-fiction writer
  • Amanda Enayati (born 1967), columnist, communication strategist
  • Camelia Entekhabifard (born 1973), poet, journalist, and memoirist, living in the United States
  • Parvin E'tesami (1907–1941), acclaimed classical poet, essayist
  • Mansoureh Ettehadieh (graduated 1956), historian, educator, non-fiction writer, novelist
  • Tahereh Eybod (born 1963), author, researcher, instructor, critic, and journalist.

F

  • Forough Farrokhzad (1935–1967), influential poet, film director, poetry translated into several languages including English
  • Pooran Farrokhzad, since the 1990s: poet, playwright, encyclopedist
  • Nazila Fathi (born 1970), author and Iranian correspondent for The New York Times

G

H

J

  • Rosa Jamali (born 1977), poet, playwright, translator

K

  • Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972), widely translated poet, human rights activist, living in the United States
  • Mehrangiz Kar (born 1944), women's rights activist, essayist, author of Crossing the Red Line
  • Persis Karim (born 1962), literature scholar, author, and professor; director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University; lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Leila Kasra (1939–1989), poet, lyricist
  • Fatemeh Keshavarz (born 1952), poet, educator, literary historian, living in the United States
  • Porochista Khakpour (born 1978), Iranian-American novelist, essayist

L

  • Shahla Lahiji (1942–2024), feminist, translator, publisher

M

  • Mahsati (c.1089–c.1159), early Persian poet writing in quatrains
  • Marsha Mehran (1977–2014), widely translated novelist, author of Pomegranate Soup; she lived in Argentina, the United States, Australia and Ireland.
  • Mozhgan Babamarandi is an eminent Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction, since 1996
  • Farzaneh Milani, Iranian-American educator, since early 1990s: non-fiction writer, poet
  • Azadeh Moaveni (born 1976), Iranian-American journalist, memoirist, author of Lipstick Jihad, now living in London
  • Roza Montazemi (c.1921–2009), popular cookbook writer
  • Minoo Moshiri, essayist, translator and journalist
  • Granaz Moussavi (born 1976), Iranian-Australian poet, screenwriter, film director

N

O

  • Ghazal Omid, memoirist, author of A True Odyssey of a Woman's Struggle in Islamic Iran Against Personal and Political Forces (2005)

P

  • Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946), novelist, short story writer, children's writer, translator
  • Zoya Pirzad (born 1952), Iranian-Armenian novelist, works translated into several languages

R

  • SA Reyhani (born 1976), journalist, children's writer

S

T

  • Táhirih, pseudonym of Fatimah Baraghani (c.1814–1852), poet, theologian
  • Goli Taraghi (born 1939), novelist, short story writer
  • Niloufar Talebi, memoirist, nonfiction writer, literary translator, multidisciplinary artist

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