Farrokhzad Athena
Born in 1983.
Athena Farrokhzad, born in 1983 in Tehran, is a Swedish poet, playwright, translator and critic.
She has published five books since Vitsvit in 2013 until Tragedierna in 2025, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Stockholm and has translated Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Natalie Diaz and Marguerite Duras into Swedish. Her work has not yet been published in French, but her first book, Vitsvit, is due to be published by L'Arche in 2027 in the ‘Des écrits pour la parole’ collection.
