Furūgh Zamān Farrukhzād (born Tehran, 1935—died of injuries sustained in a car accident in Tehran, 1967) was the most prominent twentieth-century Iranian poetess, feminist, and filmmaker. Many believe her to be one of the luminaries of modernist Persian literature. She was also a pioneer in Iranian new wave cinema. Famous for her subversive poetry, argued to be written from the feminine point of view, Furūgh, her work, and her lifestyle as an iconoclast have been the center of much public attention and scholarly discussion.