Simin (سیمین) is the Persian word for "silver, silvery." **Simin Daneshvar (1921-2012)** was the **first Iranian woman to publish a novel in Persian (*Savushun*, 1969)** — selling over 500,000 copies and remaining a cornerstone of modern Persian literature. **Wife of the great Iranian intellectual Jalal Al-e-Ahmad**, she taught at Tehran University and shaped a generation of Iranian writers and translators (she translated Chekhov, Shaw, and Hawthorne into Persian).
*Savushun* has been translated into 17 languages.
Simin reduces to five — the number of first Iranian female novelist.