These short humorous sentences proved to be wildly popular with the Iranian public, and helped to make Shapour into one of Irans cultural and literary leaders. Shapours writings have been described as “cartoons expressed as words.
At the age of 16 Forough Farrokhzad was married to satirist Parviz Shapour. She continued her education with painting and sewing classes, and moved with her husband to Ahvaz. “After her separation, and later her divorce (1954), from Parviz, she loses custody of her son because she has had several affairs.
