Inoyat Hojieva (Tajik: Иноят Ҳоҷиева), mostly known as Farzona (Tajik: Фарзона) is a Tajik poet and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Works
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Life

She was influenced by Forough Farrokhzad and other Persian poets, such as Firdowsi and Rumi.

Farzona's works are well known throughout Persian-speaking countries. She is known as Forough of Tajikistan.Her frequently playful and witty poetry draws on rich traditions of Persian literature in a rather humorous way. In late 1980, she wrote a poem called "To the Nation that Gave Birth to Ahmad Zohir".

Works

• Farzaneh Khojandi poems, Enitharmon Press and the Poetry Translation Centre, (Sept 2008), translators: Jo Shapcott, Narguess Farzad, ISBN:978-1-904634-74-4

See also

• Poetry portal

• Modern Tajik literature

References

External links

• Farzaneh Khojandi, a brief biography from the Poetry Translation Centre site (in English)
• Farzaneh Khojandi's Flute Player (in English)
• Farzaneh Khojandi
• Flute_Player Farzaneh Khojandi
• R M Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian" , Iran Society, Kolkata, 2010