Forugh Farrokhzad

Known for: Directing

Born: December 28, 1934 in Iran - Died: February 12, 1967

Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد‎‎; December 29, 1934 – February 13, 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclast, writing from a female point of view.