http://www.thetranslationproject.org Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved for Translator and Poets. Any use of any material on this website is strictly prohibited without prior permission from Niloufar Talebi. In case of Persian poetry, permission is necessary from individual poets. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:02:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Creative Press Pack http://www.thetranslationproject.org/news/creative-press-pack/ View our events photo gallery here http://www.thetranslationproject.org/events/events-photo-gallery/ A. H. Afrassiabi was born in 1934 in Esfahan, Iran. Poet, short story writer and critic, he has been living in The Netherlands since 1986. He is trained as an architect and has worked as an urban designer in Holland. He started writing poetry as a child and is ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/amir-hossein-afrasiabi/ Abbas Saffari was born in 1951 in Yazd, Iran and has been residing in the US since 1979. He was one of the first to recite avant garde, surrealist lyrics in Iran for the singer, Farhad. He is the author of Twilight Of Presence (Los Angeles, Tasveer, 1995), ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/abbas-saffari/ Partow Nooriala was born in Teheran in 1946. She started writing classical poetry at the age of thirteen and was introduced to modern Iranian poetry by the age of sixteen. She married at eighteen, but continued her literary endeavors and her education despite the arrival of two children and ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/partow-nooriala/ Majid Naficy was born in Iran in 1952. He published poetry, criticism and an award-winning children's book in Iran. During the 1970's Dr. Naficy was politically active against the Shah's regime. After the 1979 Revolution, as the new regime began to suppress the opposition, his first wife, Ezzat ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/majid-naficy/ See Mr. Naderpour's official website for information.A Conversation in the Dark (Persian | English)           http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/nader-naderpour/ One of the rising stars of Iranian poetry, Ziba Karbassi was born in 1974 in Tabriz, Iran. She left Iran in 1989 and now lives between London and Paris. She has published five volumes of poetry in Persian, all outside Iran, and continues to write prolifically. Her poetry tackles ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/ziba-karbassi/ Saghi Ghahraman was born in 1957 in Mash'had, Iran. She studied Classic & Contemporary Persian Literature at Azarabadegan University in Tabriz. Following the attacks on the women's organization she was working with, she left Iran in 1982 and stayed as a refugee in Turkey until 1987. She now resides in ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/saghi-ghahraman/ Reza Farmand was born in 1956 in Tabriz, Iran and spent his elementary and junior high years in Teheran. Later, he studied Social Sciences in India and English Studies in Denmark. Poetry seduced him since an early age. His first volume of poetry, The Eternal Dance, was published in Iran ... http://www.thetranslationproject.org/writers/reza-farmand/