Poetry of Fatemeh Sayyah, the first Iranian female professor. Tapuscripts.

Poetry of Fatemeh Sayyah, the first Iranian female professor. Tapuscripts.

1. 11 sheets; typescript; [340x225mm]. 2 sheets; typescript; [150x225mm].
2. 2 sheets; handwritten; [from 140x225mm to 280x225mm].

Tehran-Rome, 10th June/11th August 1947. 6 sheets; handwritten; [210x135mm].

1. Creased, chipped. Author’s handwritten edits, comments, marginalia. Inscribed in pencil Stikhi Fatimy [Fatemeh’s Poems] on the back, hand unknown. Overall in fine condition.
2. Creased, yellowed. On very thin paper. Overall in good condition.

Fatemeh Rezazadeh (married name Sayyah, 1902-1948) was a literary scholar born in Moscow to an Persian father and a German mother. She graduated from Moscow University, worked at the State Institute of Art Studies. In 1934, she left the USSR, but maintained contact with Russian literary scholars, including G. Shengeli.

In 1943, Sayyah became the first female professor at the University of Tehran. She is considered one of the first literary critics of modern Iran, if not the first. After her death in 1948, her personal library was donated to Tehran University.

Added two letters are addressed to literary scholar Sofya Ivanovna Leusheva (1898-1947), the wife of L. I. Timofeev and a close friend of Sayyah. They maintained their friendship since the 1920s. The first letter features previously unknown poems by Sayyah, dated from 1934 to 1946, complete with edits and comments left in ink over the printed text. Includes a poem dedicated to Polish poet Julian Tuwim, written in Berlin in September 1939.

Razve sila isskustva ne v etom, / Ne v jedinstvennov chude,ne vtom, / Chto, iranka, a s pol'skim  poetom / Ja odnim govoriu iazykom! [Is the power of art not / In this one single miracle / That I, an Iranian, and a Polish poet / Speak one language!]"

Previously unknown verses by Fatemeh Rezazadeh.