Nadia Anjuman is an Afghan poet, 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, before the arrival of the Taliban, had already managed to get an education and began to build a career. One of them was a talented journalist, and the other 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 took turns reading aloud the delightful novels of Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Balzac. They often recited poems by ancient Persian poets.
Thus, the girls not only joined the world of literature, but also filled in the gaps in education. If this became known to the police, the girls would face 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 given back their rights, including the opportunity to receive education.
Nadia immediately seized the opportunity and entered the Herat University of Literature.
The girl was very talented and wrote poetry in the Farsi dialect. 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 special complex form. Most of them were about love, but about love in general, and not to a specific man or phenomenon.
Years later, Anjuman's poem "Unimportant" will become a famous song - "Afghan maiden". It talks about a prison of silence that Afghans were forced to build around themselves.
The death of the poetess
The family, and especially the husband, were unhappy with the glory of Nadia. They believed that her love lyrics disgrace all relatives and the girl deserves serious punishment.
Remarkably, Nadia's husband was an educated person and a graduate of the same faculty where Anjuman studied. However, he adhered to strict views on the role of women in the family and demanded unconditional obedience from his wife. According to the stories of mutual friends, he envied the talent and popularity of his wife and often took out his anger on her.
In early November 2005, the husband brought the already dead Nadia to the hospital, demanding a death certificate. He assured that there was a quarrel, after which the woman committed suicide by drinking poison.
However, having seen multiple marks of beatings on the woman's body, the doctors called the police. But even the arrest of Nadia's husband and mother did not give a result, as the relatives refused to open an autopsy and further investigate the case.
Thus, the young poetess paid with her life for her talent. But her sacrifice was not in vain, Anjuman's poems became known all over the world and entered the golden fund of oriental poetry.
