Layla Sarahat Rushani (ca. 1952-54[1] – July 21, 2004) was an Afghan poet. Her first name also appears as Laila.[1]

The daughter of Sarshar Rushani, a journalist who was executed by the ruling communist party,[1] she was born in Charikar[2] and studied at Kabul University. Her sister died in Australia and her mother died soon afterwards. She published a number of poetry collections, consisting mainly of modern Persian poems.[1]

Rushani left Afghanistan for the Netherlands due to the persecution of women by the Taliban. She published a literary journal in Persian, Eve in Exile, there. She died of brain cancer in 2004.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 282. ISBN 0415159806.
  2. 1 2 "Laila Sarahat Rushani (1337-1383)". ariaye.com.


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