Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Forough Farrokzhad in 1965 (via Paris Review)

Her name was Forough Farrokhzad. Born in 1934, Tehran. A curious, perceptive and intelligent child, an independent spirit. Her father, a senior-ranking military man— authoritarian and deeply patriarchal; her mother—dour, abusive and rigid. And there is the little Forough, climbing trees, hopping on walls, ask…

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