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Simin Behbahani ((ペルシア語: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''.〔Fatemeh Keshavarz, ''Banishing the Ghosts of Iran'', The Chronicle Review of Higher Education, Vol. 53, No. 45, p. B6 (13 July 2007). ()〕 She was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature, and has "received many literary accolades around the world."〔(Tehran Halts Travel By Poet Called 'Lioness Of Iran' ) by Mike Shuster, NPR, 17 March 2010〕 Her surname also appears as Bihbahani. ==Biography== Simin Behbahani, whose real name was Simin Khalili ((ペルシア語:سیمین خلیلی))〔Behbahani was the last name of her first husband ().〕 (سيمين خليلی), was the daughter of Abbās Khalili (عباس خلیلی), poet, writer and Editor of the ''Eghdām'' (Action) newspaper,〔Abbās Khalili, Persian Wikipedia.〕 and Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun (فخرعظمی ارغون), poet and teacher of the French language.〔Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun, Persian Wikipedia.〕 Abbās Khalili (1893–1971) wrote poetry in both Persian and Arabic and translated some 1100 verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh into Arabic.〔Abbās Khalili, ''ibid.''〕 Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun (1898–1966) was one of the progressive women of her time and a member of ''Khānun-e Nesvān-e Vatan'khāh'' (Association of Patriotic Women) between 1925 and 1929. In addition to her membership of ''Hezb-e Democrāt'' (Democratic Party) and ''Kānun-e Zanān'' (Women's Association), she was for a time (1932) Editor of the ''Āyandeh-ye Iran'' (Future of Iran) newspaper. She taught French at the secondary schools ''Nāmus'', ''Dār ol-Mo'allemāt'' and ''No'bāvegān'' in Tehran.〔Fakhr-e Ozmā Arghun, ''ibid.''〕 Simin Behbahani started writing poetry at twelve and published her first poem at the age of fourteen. She used the "Char Pareh" style of Nima Yooshij and subsequently turned to ''ghazal''. Behbahani contributed to a historic development by adding theatrical subjects and daily events and conversations to poetry using the ''ghazal'' style of poetry. She has expanded the range of the traditional Persian verse forms and has produced some of the most significant works of the Persian literature in the 20th century. She was President of The Iranian Writers' Association and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999 and 2002. In early March 2010 she could not leave the country due to official prohibitions. As she was about to board a plane to Paris, police detained her and interrogated her "all night long". She was released but without her passport. Her English translator (Farzaneh Milani) expressed surprise at the arrest as detention as Behbahani was then 82 and nearly blind. "We all thought that she was untouchable."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simin Behbahani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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