TEHRAN -- Iran will be commemorating the Iranian poetess Parvin Etesami during a conference on November 20 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Iranian cultural attaché Mohammad Hossein Abedini mentioned this during his recent visit with Zhamal Frontbek-Qizi, a representative of Mutakalim, a Kyrgyz Muslim women’s NGO.
“We want to encourage the participation of this NGO in holding the conference during the meeting,” Abedini stated in a press release on Sunday.
The conference on Parvin Etesami held in Tashkent was warmly received by Uzbek women and it would appear that the same will hold true in Kyrgyzstan, he said.
The themes of the conference will be announced by Mutakalim in the near future and some Iranian women scholars will also attend the event, he said.
Parvin Etesami (1907-1940) was born in Tabriz and composed her first poem in the classical style when she was eight years old. She received her high school diploma from the American Girls’ School of Tehran and also taught at the school for two years.
Her poems focus on themes of social awareness and the human aspect of life with simple yet insightful allegorical elements. There are no signs of romanticism or feminism in her works, although she lived in the period when Iran was beginning to modernize.