![]() Al-Ahmad and Daneshvar never had a child. Her last book is currently lost and was supposed to be the last book of her trilogy which started with "the lost island". Daneshvar was also a renowned translator, a few of her translations were "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov and "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Being the wife of the famous Iranian writer Jalal al-Ahmad, she had a profound influence on his writing, she wrote the book "the Dawn of Jalal" in memory of her husband. ![]() Daneshvar's Playhouse, a collection of five stories and two autobiographical pieces, is the first volume of translated stories by an Iranian woman author. The first novel by an Iranian woman was her Savushun ("Mourners of SiyĆ¢vash", also known as A Persian Requiem, 1966), which went on to become a bestseller. Savushun: A Novel about Modern Iran Simin Danishvar. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit in 1948, her collection of Persian short stories was the first by an Iranian woman to be published. Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Academic, novelist, fiction writer, literary translator ![]()
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