BEHBAHANI, SIMIN
iv. Selected Bibliography
i. Publications.
i(a). Poetry.
1950 Setār-e šekasta (The broken sitar), Tehran.
1956 Jā-ye pā (Footprints), Tehran.
1957 Čelčerāḡ (Candelabrum), Tehran.
1962 Marmar (Marble), Tehran.
1973 Rastāḵiz (Resurrection), Tehran.
1981 Ḵaṭṭi ze sor’at o az ātaš (A line of speed and of fire), Tehran.
1983 Dašt e Aržan (Arzhan plain), Tehran.
1992 Kāḡaḏin jāma (Paper dress), California.
1995 Yek dariča āzādi: 1325-1376 (A window to freedom: 1946-1997), Tehran.
2000 Yeki maṯalan in-ke … (For instance), Tehran.
2006 Ey Diyār-e rošanam (O My enlightened homeland), California.
i(b). Selections of poems.
1988 Gozina-ye ašʿār (Selected poems), Tehran (Figure 1).
1990 Gozina-ye ašʿār (Selected poems), repr., California.
1994 Kowli o nāma o ʾešq: gozina-ye ḡazalhā-ye nowāʾin (Gypsy, letter and love: a selection of modern ghazals), Tehran.
1995 ʿĀšeqtar az hamiša be ḵˇān: gozina-ye ḡazalhā-ye sonnati (Sing more in love than ever: a selection of traditional ghazals), Tehran.
1998 Jā-ye pā tā Āzādi (From Foot prints to Freedom: Selected works), Tehran (Figure 2).
1998 Az sālhā-ye āb o sarāb: montaḵab-e haft daftar-e šeʿr (Of the years of water and mirage), Tehran.
1998 Negāra-ye golgun: Kāḡazin jāmahā o afzudahā (The red prints: Paper dress and Additions) California.
2003 Majmuʿ-ye ašʿār (Collected works), Tehran.
i(c). Prose.
1989 Ān mard, mard-e hamrāham (That man, my fellow companion), Tehran.
1996 Bā qalb-e ḵod če ḵaridam (What did I buy with my heart), Tehran.
1999 Yād-e baʿżi nafarāt (Remembering some friends), Tehran (Figure 3).
2000 Kelid o ḵanjar: qeṣṣahā o ḡoṣṣahā (The key and the sword: collected stories and memoirs), Tehran.
2012 Bā mādaram hamrāh: zendagi-nāma-ye ḵodnevešt (Along with my mother: an autobiography), Tehran.
Behbahani also translated Pierre de Boisdeffre’s Les Poètes français d’aujourd'hui (1987) into Persian, as Šāʿerān-e emruz-e Farānseh (Tehran, 1994).
i(d). Behbahani’s Poetry in Translation.
English.
1996 Modern Persian Poetry, Mahmud Kianush, UK.
1997 Iranian Studies, 30/3-4.
1999 A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbehani, edited and translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, New York (Figure 4).
2005 Strange Times My Dear: The Pen Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature, ed. Nahid Mozaffari and Ahmad-Hakkak, New York.
2009 My Country, I Shall Build You Again: Selected Poems of Simin Behbehani, tr. Sara Khalili, Tehran.
French.
2015 Grappe de lumières: poèmes 1946-2014, Simin Bebahani, Traduit par Jalal Alaviani, France.
German.
2005 Der Wind wird uns entführen: Moderne persische Lyrik. Ausgewählt, übersetzt und eingeleitet von Kurt Scharf. München, pp. 91-93.
Hungarian.
2013 Elhagyott szentély: [vers] by Sīmīn Bihbihānī, Balogi Virág, et al.
ii. Critical Studies.
1993 Nima-ye digar, 2/1 (special issue), Pāʾiz 1372 Š./Fall 1993 (Figure 5).
1997 Iranian Studies, 30/3-4.
1998 Daftar-e honar 5/10, Pāʾiz 1377 Š./Fall 1998 (Special issue; Figure 6).
2000 Tarannom-e ḡazal: bar-resi-e zendagi va āṯār-e Simin Behbahāni, Kāmyār ʿĀbedi, Tehran (Figure 7).
2004 Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed., ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran.
2006 Gowharān 4/11-12, Tehran.
2008 Gahvāra-ye sabz-e afrā: zendagi o šeʿr-e Simin Behbehāni, Aḥmad Abu Maḥbub, Tehran.
2008 Iranian Studies 41/1 (Special issue), Guest editor: Farzaneh Milani, pp. 1-96.
2011 Words, Not Swords, Syracuse, Farzaneh Milani, pp. 155-79, New York, (Figure 8).
2012 Negāh-e now, 22/96 (Special issue), Tehran (Figure 9).
2014 Boḵarā, 16/101 (special Issue), Tehran (Figure 10).
2014 Iran Nameh, 29/3-4 (special issue), Toronto (Figure 11)
2014 Nāfeh 14/49, Mehr 1393Š./October 2014 (Special issue: Figure 12), Tehran
2015 Persian Language, Literature and Culture, ed., Kamran Talattof, London.
iii. Sources.
Kāmyār ʿĀbedi, Tarannom-e ḡazal: bar-resi-e zendagi va āṯār-e Simin Behbahāni, Tehran, 2000.
Aḥmad Abu Maḥbub, Gahvāra-ye sabz-e afrā: zendagi o šeʿr-e Simin Behbehāni, Čehrahā-ye šeʿr-e moāʿṣer-e Irān 18, 2nd ed., Tehran, 2008.
Moḥammad Hāšem Akbariāni, Simin Behbahāni (Interview), Tehran, 2014.
Iraj ʿAliābādi, “Jā-ye pā,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed., ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 31-38.
Majid ʿĀṣemi, “Šeʿr-e cinimāʾi va cinemā-ye šāʿerāna,” Gowharān 4/11-12, Bahār-Tābestān 1385Š./Spring-Summer 2006, pp. 136-39.
Manučehr Ātaši, “Simin: Del-mašḡulihā o delāvarihā-ye bāztābida dar šeʿrhā,” Kārnāma, 30 Šahrivar 1381Š./2002, pp. 21-23.
Jamšid Barzegar, “Simin Behbahāni čeguna ‘Nimā-ye ḡazal’ šod,” http://www.bbc.com/persian/arts/2014/09/140902_jb_simin-behbahani-poems.shtml.
Michael Beard, “Preface,” A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbehani, edited and translated from the Persian by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, New York, 1999, pp. xii-xiii.
Simin Behbahani, “Fehrest-e owzān-e bi-sābeqa yā kam-sābeqa dar in ketāb,” Ḵaṭṭi ze sorʿat o az ātaš, 1981, pp. 147-50.
Idem, “Pā-ye ṣoḥbat-e Simin Behbahāni,” Nima-ye digar, 2/1, Pāʾiz 1372Š./Fall 1993, pp. 177-91.
Idem, “Bā talāš o talāṭom,” Bā qalb-e ḵod če ḵaridam, Tehran, 1996, pp. 7-17.
Idem, “Dar čarḵa-ye degarguni-e šeklhā o qālebhā,” Bā qalb-e ḵod če ḵaridam, Tehran, 1999a, pp. 798-809.
Idem, “ We Await the Golden Dawn,” in A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems of Simin Behbehani, edited and translated from the Persian by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, New York, 1999b, pp. xvii-xxiv.
Idem, “Az har dari soḵani,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed. ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 576-91.
Mehri Behfar, “Goḏari bar ʿāšeqānahā-ye Simin,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed. ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 440-71.
Boḵārā, ed., ʿAli Dehbāši, “Yādnāma-ye Simin Behbahāni,” 16/101, Mordād-Šahrivar 1393 Š./August-September 2014, pp. 90-225.
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, “Revivification of an Ossified Genre? Simin Behbahani and the Persian Ghazal,” Iranian Studies 41/1, February 2008, pp. 75-90.
Simin Dānešvar, “Barg-e sabzi piškeš-e Simin Behbahāni: bānu-ye ḡazal-e moʿāṣer-e Irān,” Nima-ye digar 2/1, Pāʾiz 1372Š./Fall 1993, pp. 11-14.
Firouzeh Dianat, “Iranian Female Writers and the Anxiety of Authorship,” in Talattof, ed., 2015, pp. 337-53.
J. T. P. de Bruijn, “Ḡazal i. History,” in Encyclopedia Iranica X, 2001, pp. 354-58.
ʿAli Dehbbāši, ed., Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, Tehran, 2004.
ʿAli-Akbar Ganji, “Be istādegi, be nāfarmāni-e madani niāzmandim,” Gowharān 4/11-12, Bahār-Tābestān 1385Š./Spring-Summer 2006, pp. 118-22.
Mohammad Reza Ghanoonparvar, “The Storyteller’s Canvas: The Life and Fiction of Simin Behbahani,” Iranian Studies 41/1, February 2008, pp. 37-45.
Ḵosrow Golsorḵi, “’Jā-ye pā’-ye ḡazalsarā-ye zamāna,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed. ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 39-41.
ʿAli Moḥammad Ḥaqšenās, “Nimā-ye ḡazal: Simin,” in idem, Maqālāt-e adabi-zabānšenāḵti, Tehran, 1991, pp. 153-68.
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, “Introduction: Iran’s Literature 1977-97,” Iranian Studies 30/3-4, Summer-Fall 1997, pp. 193-213.
Idem, “Az dorošti-e jang tā nāšakibāʾi-e jān,” in idem, Bud o nemud-e soḵan: matn-e adabi, bāftār-e ejtemāʿi, vat āriḵ-e adabiyāt, Tehran, 2015, pp. 285-324
Idem, “Simin Behbahāni: lowḥ-e maḥfuẓ-e ruzgārān,” Iran Nameh, 29/3-4, Fall/Winter 2014-2015, pp. 272-80.
Sara Khalili, tr., My Country, I Shall Build You Again: Selected Poems of Simin Behbehani, Tehran, 2009.
Bahāʾ-al-Din Ḵorramšāhi, “Nanvešt kasi šekasta rā čon tow dorost,” Enteqād-e ketāb-e Negāh-e now, no. 11, Zemestān 1391 Š./Winter 2013, pp. 5-10.
Farzaneh Milani, “Mošti por az setāra: zendagi o šeʿr-e Simin Behbahāni,” Nima-ye digar, 2/1, Pāʾiz 1372Š./Fall 1993, pp. 37-62.
Idem, Words, Not Swords, Syracuse, 2011.Idem, “The Gypsy Poet: Fluidity and Flux in the Poetry of Simin Behbahani, in Idem, Words, Not Swords, Syracuse, 2011, pp. 155-200.
Idem, “Dow zendagi-nāma, yek šāhkār-e mosallam-e adabi: Simin Behbahāni o mādaraš, Faḵr-e ʿOẓmā Arḡun o doḵtaraš,” Iran Nameh, 28/1, Spring 2013, pp. 168-75
ʿAli Mirzāʾi, “Bā man bemān, be mā omid bedeh,” Enteqād-e ketāb-e Negāh-e now, no. 10, Pāʾiz 1391 Š./Fall 2012, pp. 3-7.
Javād Mojābi, “Tarāna-ḵˇān-e ḥormat-e budan,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed. ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 62-66.
Żiāʾ Movaḥḥed, “taʾmmoli dar šeʿr-e Simin Behbehāni,” Nima-ye digar, 2/1, Pāʾiz 1372Š./Fall 1993, pp. 63-66.
Ḥāfeẓ Musavi, “Simin Behbahāni,” Kārnāma, 30 Šahrivar 1381Š./21 September 2002, pp. 15, 18.
Partow Nuriʿalaʾ, “Parvin, Foruḡ, Simin dar se marḥala az taḡiyr o taḥavvol-e tāriḵi-e Irān,” Nima-ye digar, 2/1, Pāʾiz 1372Š./Fall 1993, pp., 140-68.
ʿĀbbās Pahlavān, “Ḡazāl-e siyah-čašm-e ḡazal,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed., ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 42-44.
Nāṣereddin Parvin, “Faḵr-e ʿOżmā Arḡun: mādar-e šāʿer o ruznāma-negār Simin Behbahāni,” Boḵārā 16/101, Mordād-Šahrivar 1393 Š./August-September 214, pp. 139-43.
Saeid Rezvani, “Be yād-e šāʿeri bozorg,” Zanān-e emruz, 1/4 Šahrivar 1393 Š./September 2014, p. 72.
Mehri Šāh-Ḥosayni, “Nowāvar, ḵallāq, ṣāḥeb sabk,” Zani bā dāmani šeʿr, ed. ʿAli Dehbāši, Tehran, 2004, pp. 491-94.
Moḥammad Ṣadr-e Hāšemi, Jarāʾed o majallāt, Eṣfahān, 1948.
Marta Simidchieva, “Three Songs for Iran: Gender and Social Commitment in the Poetry of Parvin E’tesami, Forugh Farrokhzad, and Simin Behbahani,” in Talattof, ed., 2015, pp. 48-79.
Kamran Talattof, “A Window to the Past and the Future: “Fenjan-e shekasteh” (The Broken Cup),” Iranian Studies, 30/3-4, Summer-fall 1997, pp. 249-54.
Idem, The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature, New York, 2000.
Idem, “I Will Rebuild You, Oh My Homeland’: Simin Behbahani’s Work and Sociopolitical Discourse,” Iranian Studies 41/1, 2008, pp. 19-36.
Idem, ed., Persian Language, Literature and Culture, London, 2015.
Ehsan Yarshater, “Ḡazal ii. Characteristics and Conventions,”Encyclopædia Iranica, online edition, 2016, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gazal-2 (accessed on 20 September 2016).
Idem, “Bā mādaram hamrāh,” Iran Nameh 28/4, Fall/Winter 2013, pp. 156-58.
Houra Yavari, “Az kina-ye šotori be ḵašm-e enqelābi: taʾammoli dar delālat-e esteʿāri-e šeʿr-e ‘Va negāh kon be šotor āri’” Zendagi dar āiyna: goftārhāʾi dar naqd-e adabi, Tehran, 2001, pp. 209-28.
Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Yusofi, “Ranj-e budan,” Češma-ye rowšan: didār bā šāʿerān, 6th ed., Tehran, 2005, pp.753-60.
(Saeid Rezvani and Houra Yavari)
Originally Published: December 16, 2016
Last Updated: December 16, 2016
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