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108423
Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:58
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War novel draws U.S. translator to Iran
TEHRAN (MNA) Feb. 25 -- U.S. translator Paul Sprachman will travel to Iran once again in May in order to visit the narrator of “Da”, a Persian novel on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
Sprachman, who has been invited by the Center for Creation of Literary Works of the Art Bureau, is also scheduled to report on the progress he has made in translation of the novel so far during his two-week sojourn in Tehran.
He is currently translating the novel into English.
Written by Seyyedeh Azam Hosseini, “Da” was published in 2008 and soon became an Iranian bestseller.
The novel contains recollections by Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini of the time when the Iraqi army captured Khorramshahr in the early days of the Iran-Iraq war, which is known as the Sacred Defense in Iran.
Sprachman has previously translated Ahmad Dehqan’s “Bearing 270 Degrees,” and Habib Ahmadzadeh’s “Chess with the Resurrection Machine”, two other Persian novels in the Sacred Defense genre.
Sprachman can read and write Persian, Arabic, German, Hindu-Urdu, French, and Latin. He is also somewhat familiar with Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh’s “What’s Sauce for the Goose” and “Once Upon a Time”, Ebrahim Golestan’s “Esmat’s Journey”, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s “Plagued by the West” are the some of the other Persian books he has previously rendered into English.
Sprachman, who has been invited by the Center for Creation of Literary Works of the Art Bureau, is also scheduled to report on the progress he has made in translation of the novel so far during his two-week sojourn in Tehran.
He is currently translating the novel into English.
Written by Seyyedeh Azam Hosseini, “Da” was published in 2008 and soon became an Iranian bestseller.
The novel contains recollections by Seyyedeh Zahra Hosseini of the time when the Iraqi army captured Khorramshahr in the early days of the Iran-Iraq war, which is known as the Sacred Defense in Iran.
Sprachman has previously translated Ahmad Dehqan’s “Bearing 270 Degrees,” and Habib Ahmadzadeh’s “Chess with the Resurrection Machine”, two other Persian novels in the Sacred Defense genre.
Sprachman can read and write Persian, Arabic, German, Hindu-Urdu, French, and Latin. He is also somewhat familiar with Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh’s “What’s Sauce for the Goose” and “Once Upon a Time”, Ebrahim Golestan’s “Esmat’s Journey”, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s “Plagued by the West” are the some of the other Persian books he has previously rendered into English.
