Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner
Graduated in psychology from the University of Exceter, Martin V. Turner (1948 – 2009) an educational psychologist, poet and translator. As a translator of a […]
Articles
Homage to Modern Scheherazade of Iran
Most of Daneshvar’s protagonists are women; her attention to women’s lives and their characters were unprecedented in the fictional literature of Iran. The women she portrayed are unalike those that her famous contemporaries
Bloom, Rahmani, and the Aestheticization of Bitterness
A Profile on Nosrat Rahmani (1929-2000) The most challenging task in writing on Nosrat Rahmani’s poetry is to render the uniqueness of his poetical compositions […]
The Memories of Taj-al-Saltaneh: A History of Wonder and Anguish
Title: Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 Series: Persian Classics Author: Taj Al Saltana, Anna Vanzan, Abbas Amanat […]
A Translator’s Note: Hedayat, Translated / Hedayat, the Translator
“Bombay Rain” is from a collection of interrelated short stories whose protagonist and/or narrator is an Iranian living in India, bringing together elements of both […]
Afra or the Day Passes: A Structuralist Reading (II)
Afra, or the Day Passes by Bahram Bayzayi (b. 1938), the prolific Iranian screenwriter, playwright and director, was published in 1998 but was only premiered […]
Afra or the Day Passes: A Structuralist Reading (I)
Afra, or the Day Passes by Bahram Bayzayi (b. 1938), the prolific Iranian screenwriter, playwright and director, was published in 1998 but was only premiered […]
Let Us Steal a Lease of Life
Let Us Steal a Lease of Life: interview with Martin Turner English psychologist, poet and translator 28th August 2003 Raised in Post-War plenty, I could […]