Nadia Anjuman is an Afghan poetess, a girl with great talent and a difficult tragic fate. Her poems have been translated into different languages of the world, and she herself has become a symbol of freedom of speech for many women in Afghanistan.
Biography
Nadia was born on December 27, 1980 in Afghanistan, in the city of Herat. As a result of the seizure of power by the Taliban, great changes took place in the country and women lost most of their rights and freedoms.
Girls and girls could no longer receive a decent education. The only permitted occupation for women was work and family responsibilities. Also, women could sew and gather for this lesson in specially organized sewing circles.
Nadia began to go to one of these circles. He was in the house of Muhammad Ali Rahyab, who worked as a professor of literature at the university.
The man had two daughters who had already managed to get an education before the arrival of the Taliban and began to build a career. One of them was a talented journalist, and the second was a promising writer.
The man did not agree with the rules of the new regime and secretly from the authorities allowed the girls to read books aloud while sewing. These were the best works of world literature. The young seamstresses in turn read aloud the delightful novels of Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Balzac. Often they read verses of ancient Persian poets.
Thus, girls not only joined the world of literature, but also filled in the gaps in education. If the police knew this, the girls would have been in prison or even death.
Crimson flower
In 2001, another coup d'etat and the overthrow of the Taliban regime took place in Afghanistan. Women were returned their rights, including the opportunity to receive an education.
Nadia immediately took this opportunity and entered the University of Herat at the Faculty of Literature.
The girl was very talented and wrote poetry in Farsi. While still a student, she wrote and published her first collection of poems - “The Crimson Flower”, which immediately became popular not only in Afghanistan, but also in neighboring countries.
The collection consisted mainly of gazelles - poems of a particularly complex form. Most of them were about love, but about love in general, and not to a particular man or phenomenon.
Over the years, Anjuman’s poem "Never Matter" will become a famous song - "Afghan Maiden." It speaks of a prison of silence, which the Afghans were forced to build around themselves.
