Ghazaleh Alizadeh

Summary

Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Persian: غزاله علیزاده listen); 15 February 1949 – 12 May 1996)[1] was an Iranian poet and writer. Her mother was also a poet and writer. She married twice; she and her husband Bijan Elahi had a daughter called Salma. She also adopted two girls who were survivors of the 1961 Qazvin earthquake.[2]

Ghazaleh Alizadeh
غزاله علیزاده
Born
Fatemeh Alizadeh
فاطمه علیزاده

(1949-02-15)15 February 1949
Died12 May 1996(1996-05-12) (aged 47)
Spouses
(m. 1969, divorced)
  • Mohammad Reza Nezam-Shahidi
Children1

Biography edit

 
Tomb of Ghazaleh Alizadeh

She was an introvert, smart, and energetic student at school. She got her diploma in Humanities from Mahasti High School and at the same time became a vegetarian. She received her BA in Political Sciences from Tehran University, then went to France to study philosophy and cinema at Sorbonne University. She initially went to Paris to pursue her PhD in law, but changed her major to illuminationism and wanted to write her dissertation on Molavi, but she left it due to the sudden death of her father.

She started her literary career by writing short stories in Mashhad. Her major work was the novel Khaneye Edrisiha ("The Edrissis' House" (خانه ادریسیها)). Her short stories include "The Crossroad", "After Summer", and "The In-transitory Journey", and her other novels include Two Landscapes and Tehran Nights. Some of her works have been translated into English by Rosa Jamali.

While she was suffering from cancer, she attempted suicide twice. She finally committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree in Javaher Deh in Ramsar, Mazandaran in May 1996. Her body was interred at Emamzadeh Taher cemetery.

A documentary movie, Ghazaleh Alizadeh Trial, has been produced about her life.[3][4][5]

Books edit

Novels edit

  • Two views
  • Edrissis' House (two volumes)
  • Tehran's nights

Stories edit

  • "After summer"
  • "Impassable travel"

Other edit

  • Halls
  • House's dream and downfall nightmare

References edit

  1. ^ "Arash Magazine - نشریه آرش - به یادِ غزاله علیزاده". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
  2. ^ electricpulp.com. "ALIZADEH, Ghazaleh – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org.
  3. ^ رادیو زمانه
  4. ^ خبرگزاری کتاب ایران
  5. ^ Nikoonazar, Karim (1998). Heaven can wait. Kargozaran newspaper. p. 5.

External links edit

  Media related to Ghazaleh Alizadeh at Wikimedia Commons

  • نشریه الکترونیکی سه پنج (صدای مستقل ادبیات ایران)انتشار صدای غزاله علیزاده
  • دانشجویان «محاکات غزاله علیزاده» و «نقل‌گرد آفرید» را می‌بینند
  • فیلم زندگی «غزاله علیزاده»اردیبهشت ماه آماده نمایش می‌شود. خبرگزاری کتاب ایران
  • مستند "غزاله علیزاده" کلید می‌خورد
  • نگاهی کوتاه به رمان شبهای تهران. سایت آفتاب Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine
  • «"محاکات غزاله علیزاده" اجازه حضور نیافت»
  • فیلم زندگی "غزاله علیزاده"اردیبهشت آماده نمایش می‌شود. روزنامه آفتاب یزد
  • نافه، ویژه غزاله علیزاده
  • به یاد غزاله علیزاده، در سایه روشن کلام
  • ّFarokhzad, Pooran (2002). Yesterday till today. Tehran: Ghatreh publication. p. 565. ISBN 964-341-116-8.
  • Ghazaleh Alizadeh's THE HOUSE OF EDRISIS Archived 2018-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, translated by Rosa Jamali