By Nathalie Handal If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it contains. —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Can you describe the mood of …
Entrevista a Cláudio Aguiar O poeta e tradutor iraniano Mohsen Emadi veio ao Brasil para participar de eventos em Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro e Ouro Preto. A sua vinda, patrocinada pela ONG International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), entidade sediada na Noruega e apoiada pelo PEN Internacional, contou também com …
Persis Karim: Can you say a little about what finally made you leave Iran? Were you threatened with imprisonment? I know you left in 2009, but in the interview you did with Lyn Coffin, your translator, you were a bit vague. I wonder if you can elaborate a bit. Mohsen …
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman translated into Persian by Sholeh Wolpé and Mohsen Emadi (A project of The International Program at the University of Iowa) * Read Sholeh Wolpe’s interview on the translation process