Congress on the noted Iranian poetess, Parvin E’tesami, will be held at the international level for the first time in March 2013, said secretary of the seminar commemorating the poet.
Addressing a news conference on the seminar, Asadollah Moazzami-Goudarzi added that the Seminar on Parvin Etesami marking her 105th birth anniversary was earlier scheduled to be held on March 15 but it will be held on March 12.
The seminar will seek to review her poems from a new perpective, he said, noting many works have so far been written on her life and works.
Holding the seminar is, indeed, honoring the status of Iranian women, he said, noting that some 70 articles have been submitted to the secretariat of the seminar.
An exhibition of documents and photos pertaining to the poetess will also be held concurrent with the seminar, Moazzami said.
Parvin E'tesami was born in Tabriz in 1907. Her family moved to Tehran early in her life, and in addition to the formal schooling, she obtained a solid understanding of Arabic and classical Persian literature from her father.
She studied at the American Girls College in Tehran and graduated in 1924 from the Iran Bethel, an American high school for girls.
Afterwards, she taught for a while at that school.
In 1934, she was married to a cousin of her father and moved to the city of Kermanshah. But the marriage only lasted for ten weeks and she returned Tehran again. She died three years after her father’s death and was buried near her father in Qom.
Parvin was around seven or eight years old when her poetic ability was revealed. The first edition of her Divan (anthology of poems) comprised 156 poems and appeared in 1935. The famous poet and scholar Mohammad Taqi Bahar wrote an introduction to her work.
In her short life, she managed to achieve great fame amongst Iranians. Parvin's poetry follows the classical Persian tradition both in form and substance.
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