About Simin Daneshvar:
Simin D?neshvar is the first volume of translated stories by an Iranian woman author. Being the wife of the famous iran writer "jalal-al-ahmad", she had a profound influence on his writing, she wrote the book "the Dawn of jalal" in memory of her husband. Simin was also a very good translator, of her translations we can name "The cherry garden" from antoin chekhov and "The scarlett letter" by nathaniel hawthorn. Her last book is currently lost and was supposed to be the last book of her trilogy which started with "the lost island". Al-ahmad and daneshvar never had a child.