"Despite my age, I can almost say that I have never put pen to paper without worrying about censorship. The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state, I have said again and again that, when there is an apparatus for censorship that filters all writing, an apparatus comes into being in every writerâs mind that says: âDonât write this, they wonât allow it to be published.â But the true writer must ignore these murmurings. The true writer must write. In the end, it will be published one day, on the condition that the writer writes the truth and does not dissemble. Of course, whenever censorship is stringent, most writers resort to metaphor and figurative and symbolic language. And this can help stimulate the imagination. But taking comfort from this fact doesnât lessen the writerâs dream of attaining freedom."
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Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani, her surname also appears as Bihbahani (nĂ©e Siminbar Khalili; Persian: ŰłÛÙ ÛÙ ŰšÙŰšÙۧÙÛ; July 20 1927 - August 19 2014) was a poet, lyricist, and activist from Tehran, Iran.
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