Authors and Poets
- Roxana Shirazi, Author of The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage. Poet and journalist
- Marjane Satrapi, Writer, Persepolis,Embroideries and Chicken with Plums
- Mahnaz Afkhami, Writer
- Roya Hakakian, Writer and Poet
- Lobat Vala Poet
- Moniru Ravanipor, Writer
- Mana Aghaee, Poet, Translator and Bibliographer
- Mina Assadi, Poet and author, winner of the Hellman/Hammett awards (human Rights Watch) in New York in the year of 1996
- Sousan Azadi, memoirist
- Mahshid Amirshahi, Novelist
- Farzaneh Aghaeipour, Playwright and novelist
- Simin Behbahani, Poet and 1997 Nobel prize nominee.
- Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright and theatre director
- Simin Daneshvar, Academic, novelist and translator of literary texts from several languages into Persian
- Parvin E'tesami, Poet (classical)
- Forough Farrokhzad, Poet (modern)
- Granaz Moussavi, Poet
- Rabe'e Ghazdari, Poet
- Sheema Kalbasi, Poet
- Shima Nesari Haghighi Fard, Poet and writer
- Sholeh Wolpe, poet
- Justine Harun-Mahdavi, German-Iranian writer.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan, Author, actor and director. Author of THE CRIMSON FIELD
- Mahsati, Medieval poet
- Azadeh Moaveni, Writer and journalist
- Azar Nafisi, writer, "Reading Lolita in Tehran"
- Shahrnush Parsipur, Novelist
- Zoya Pirzad, Novelist and winner of Hushang Golshiri Award
- Tahereh Qorrat Al-'Ayn, Poet, philosopher and theologist; Seventeenth disciple or Letter of the Living of the Báb (mid 19th century)
- Mahasti Shahrokhi, Novelist
- Farzaneh Khojandi, Tajik poet
- Golrokhsar Safi Eva, National poet of Tajikistan
- Niloufar Talebi, Writer, translator, theater artist
- Shokooh Mirzadegi, Novelist, poet and social reformer
- Akram Monfared Arya, Author, poet
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