[New-Poetry] WorldPo: Simin Behbahani, Iran

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http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/march5/simin-030508.html
Stanford Report, March 5, 2008 
Iran’s leading poet receives new Stanford literature prize

BY CYNTHIA HAVEN

Simin Behbahani 

Iranian poet Simin Behbahani is the first recipient of Stanford's Bita Prize for Literature and Freedom. The new $10,000 prize is part of the Daryabari Persian Studies Fund, recently endowed by Bita Daryabari to support and promote teaching, research and scholarship relating to Iran, including the area formerly known as Persia, and people of Iranian or Persian heritage. 


The award ceremony is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in Cubberley Auditorium. The ceremony will include a talk by Behbahani titled "Iran Today: A Poet's Vision." 

Behbahani is one of the most prominent figures of modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding among contemporary Persian poets, as well as a leading dissident

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