As an immigrant to a Nordic country under very different circumstances, I devoured this. I’m vastly more privileged – I am not a political refugee, although my grandparents and great uncle were, in their day. But the otherness and sameness…
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What we owe
Tagged with: books, Elizabeth Jane Clark Wessel, Golnaz Hashemazeh Bonde, Iran, Sweden, Swedish, Translation, What we Owe
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Posted in books, translation
Standing on Earth
Is a pomegranate a grenade-apple, a cluster of garnets, or a something else? Moshen Emadi has some ideas: Emadi’s Standing on Earth, translated from the Persian by Lyn Coffin, is a Phoneme Media production. I love this publisher for its windows on worlds…
Tagged with: books, Iran, Lyn Coffin, Mohsen Emadi, Persian, Phoneme Media, Poetry, Translation
Posted in books, international, poetry, translation
Posted in books, international, poetry, translation
The little black fish swims back out to sea
Tiny Owl is a new children’s book publisher with a noble aim: to “introduce the cream of the crop of global children’s literature, contemporary and old, to the English speaking audience.” Their 2015 catalogue focuses on Persian treasures, and it’s moving,…
Tagged with: Azita Rassi, Farshid Meshgali, Farsi, Iran, Little Black Fish, Persian, Samad Behrangi, Tiny Owl, Translation
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Posted in literature, translation
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