Gulrukhsor Safieva

Gulrukhsor Safieva (; ) (born 17 December 1947) is a Tajik Iranologist, Persian literary figure and poet. She is known for her contribution to Iranistics, modern Persian poetry and Persian folk songs. She is highly regarded throughout Iranian cultural continent and is known as "the mother of the Tajik nation."

Biography Safieva was born on 17 December 1947 in Nurobod District, Dushanbe, Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. She was orphaned at an early age and was raised as a Muslim in orphanages.

Safieva was educated at a boarding school in Mehrobod and graduated from studying language and literature at the Tajik National University in Dushanbe in 1968. She was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (, CPSU) from 1968 to 1991.

Safieva worked as a journalist and poet. She published her first poems in the local newspaper Karategini Soveta in 1962. Her poetry used the literary devices of similes, metaphors, puns, and īhām (ambiguity).

From 1981 to 1986, Safieva was the Secretary of the Board of the Writers' Union of Tajikistan.

During the Tajikstani Civil War (1992–1997), Safieva sympathized with the Islamists and became an activist of the opposition movement. She lived for five years in Moscow.

In 1996, Safieva was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize .

Selected Publications

Poems Source: In 2010, a collection of Safieva's poetry was released in Iran.

Novels Source: Zan va Jang (Woman and war), Dushanbe: Matbu ‘ot, 2001. Sakarot (Agony), Dushanbe: Er-graf, 2009.

After publishing a study on the quatrains (Four-line poems or stanzas) of the Persian polymath and poet Omar Khayyam, in 2022 Safieva was appointed as a permanent member of the Iran's Academy of Persian Language and Literature .