Simin Behbahani
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Iranian poet (1927-2014)
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Simin Behbahani, born Siminbar Khalili in Tehran in 1927, was a female poet, writer, lyricist, and songwriter who worked in Persian. She was educated at the University of Tehran and began her work period in 1941. Her notable works include The Story of Zahra, Ba ghalbe khad, A Cup of Sin, and Maybe It's the Messiah. She received the Carl von Ossietzky Medal during her career.
She was the daughter of Abbas Khalili and Fahr-Ozma Arghun and had three children. Behbahani died in Tehran on August 19, 2014, and was buried at Behesht-e Zahra. She held citizenship in Pahlavi Iran and Iran. Her name in her native language is سیمین بهبهانی.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Story of Zahra
- Ba ghalbe khad
- A Cup of Sin
- Maybe It's the Messiah Shayad Ke-masee Hast
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 25
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Simin Behbahani Simin Behbahani (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; 20 June 1927 – 19 August 2014) was a prominent Iranian contemporaneity poet, lyricist and activist. She was an icon of the modern Persian poetry, Iranian intelligentsia and literati who affectionately refer to her as the lioness of Iran.[1] She was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, and has "received many literary accolades around the world."[2] Her surname also appears as Bihbahani. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sim
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,992x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2017 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2017 · cited 7,085x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,183x
- Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2018 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association
· 2018 · cited 5,517x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Tehran
- Place of death
- Tehran
- Father
- Abbas Khalili
- Mother
- Fahr-Ozma Arghun
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Educated at
- University of Tehran
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Field of work
- poetry
- Image
- سیمین بهبهانی - Simin Behbahani.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 9 more facts
- date of death
- 2014-08-19
- date of birth
- 1927-07-20
- Commons category
- Simin Behbahani
- place of burial
- Behesht-e Zahra
- name in native language
- سیمین بهبهانی
- birth name
- Siminbar Khalili
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
- writing language
- Persian
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