ABSTRACT
In “The Fulbright Scholar: Love Letters Between Husband and Wife in The Letters of Simin Daneshvar and Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2004),” I primarily analyze the first volume of the collected letters of the famous married literary couple Simin Daneshvar and Jalal Al-e Ahmad, which were edited in four volumes by Massoud Jafari. Simin Daneshvar, who was a writer and translator and considered the first female Iranian novelist, was married to the social critic and short story writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad from 1950 until his death in 1969. During this time, they exchanged many letters, the first volume of which reflects the period of time in which Daneshvar was a Fulbright scholar living in California. The chapter argues that her travels to California made Daneshvar a representative of a country whose literary heritage was little known in America in the 1950s and that she took on the role of an unofficial ambassador to convey Iran’s literary and cultural heritage and achievements.
