Her novel Savushun, pronounced in Persian as Suvasun, is placed in the 1950s and 1960s under the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah. Therefore Daneshvar sheds light on the real issues of the women of her time and has influenced, even inspired,a large number of Iranian woman writers. Before her, Daneshvar’s male predecessor wrote about women however they wrote about women from a male mentality and based on “their”comprehension and perspective of a female psyche. Daneshvar is considered as the Voice of Iranian women fighting for their rights. Simin Daneshvar is known as the pioneer of Iranian female literature, whose novels are orbiting around the theme of women trying to gain their voice in a male-dominated society. In Iranian history, woman have been subjugated and dominated by gender and cultural norms and have sometimes been excluded from the governments public sector on some occasions. She wrote novels after the Islamic revolution of the 1979. Simin Daneshvar is the first Iranian female novelist.
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