Achievements In the year of 1996 she won the Hellman/Hammett Grant from the Human Rights Watch of New York, United States of America. She has been compared to Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad, Simin Behbahani (who also is a Hellman/Hammet Grant winner) and Parvin East"tesami and Swedish poets Karl Vennberg and Edith Södergran.