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In 1962, she also directed
The House is Black, a short
 documentary that follows the lives of people hidden away and suffering in a leper colony near the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. It is considered to be a seminal work of Iranian New Wave Cinema.
Tragically, in 1967 Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32, but she leaves behind a legacy as a respected and renowned writer and champion of women’s rights. 
Another woman profiled in the book who left a lasting legacy after a tragic death is the late Maryam Mirzakhani. 
A distinguished mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal (known as the Nobel Prize of Mathematicians) in 2014, Mirzakhani’s research topics focused on geometry. She made valuable contributions to this area of mathematics. ....

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