Iranian actress Taraneh Alidusti tries her hand at translating

TEHRAN,Dec.14 (MNA) -- Taraneh Alidusti, the aspiring young actress of the smash-hit “About Elly”, translated a collection of short stories by the Canadian short-story writer Alice Munro. The collection, which contains five short stories by Munro, is released under the name of one of the short stories “My Mother’s Dream” by the Markaz Publications. “Face”, “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”, “Queenie” and “Post and Beam” are the other four stories. Alidusti began translating the short stories after starring as the young houswife in Mani Haqiqi’s “Can’an”, an adaptation of Munro’s “Post and Beam”, four years ago. The 80-year-old Alice Ann Munro is the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada’s Governor General’s Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. Munro writes about the human condition and relationships as seen through the lens of daily life. While the locus of Munro’s fiction is her native Southwestern Ontario, her reputation as a short-story writer is international. Several of her books including “The Love of a Good Woman” and “Runaway” have been translated into Persian.