Poetry > Persian Poets > 100TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF PARVIN ETESAMI BY MILAD MOLAVI
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An international conference to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of renowned contemporary poetess Parvin Etesami simultaneously held in the cities of Qom, Tabriz and Tehran. She is considered the greatest Iranian classical poetess ever.
House of Parvin Etesami in Tehran was recently registered on the National Heritage List.
She was well respected in all circles of life, not just because of her brilliant and revolutionary works, but for her refined manners and the free spirit that she possessed.
Parvin Etesami Born in 1906 in Tabriz, and studied at an American Girls College in Tehran and taught two years in this school too. She learned Arabic and Persian literature from her father and accompanied literature meetings, when she was six. Parvin started her poetry career at the young age of 9. She worked as a librarian in Tehran University.Parvin made some limited trips in Iran and Foreign countries with her family. Parvin Etesami married in 1934 and divorced two months later.
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She changed her last name to reflect her father's position as E'tesami, or political governor. She died in 1941 by typhus at the age of 35, and was buried in Qom, Iran. She became famous after her works were published.
Her work, about 210 poems, reflects the reality of life in her day and offers moral solutions. She developed a style for expressing people’s pain by making comparisons to natural events. The political events in Iran had a great influence on her way of writing. One of her remarkable series, called Drunk but Aware (Mast vali Hoshyar), won admiration from everyone involved in romantic poetry in Iran.
Parvin is considered the greatest Persian poetess of the Persian classical style. Her poems had social, humanity, learning and mystic concepts and no sign of love and feminism found in her works, due to her loneliness and seclusion from social activities, as she lived in Iran's evolution period to modernism.
Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvin_Etesami
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