Inoyat Hojieva (), mostly known as Farzona () is a Tajik poet and writer. She won a lifetime achievement award. Life She was influenced by Forough Farrokhzad and other Persian poets, such as Firdowsi and Rumi. Farzona's works are well known throughout Persian-speaking countries. She is known as Forough of Tajikistan. Her frequently playful and witty poetry draws on rich traditions of Persian literature in a rather humorous way. In late 1980, she wrote a poem called "To the Nation that Gave Birth to Ahmad Zohir". Works Farzaneh Khojandi poems, Enitharmon Press and the Poetry Translation Centre, (Sept 2008), translators: Jo Shapcott, Narguess Farzad, See also Modern Tajik literature References External links Farzaneh Khojandi, a brief biography from the Poetry Translation Centre site (in English) Farzaneh Khojandi's Flute Player (in English) Farzaneh Khojandi Flute_Player Farzaneh Khojandi R M Chopra, "Eminent Poetesses of Persian" , Iran Society, Kolkata, 2010 Tajik poets Persian-language poets Tajikistani women poets 20th-century Tajikistani poets 1960 births Living people Persian-language women poets 21st-century Tajikistani poets People from Khujand 20th-century Tajikistani writers 20th-century Tajikistani women writers 21st-century Tajikistani writers 21st-century Tajikistani women writers