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A Bibliography Of Modern Persian Literature In English Translation

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Jerome W. Clinton
Jerome W. Clinton*
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Iranian Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 3-4 , Autumn 1986 , pp. 327 - 346
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Contains seventeen stories: "The Search for Mercy," "The Whirlpool," "Three Drops of Blood," "Laleh," "The Stray Dog," "Buried Alive," (Brian Spooner); "The Broken Mirror," (Gisele Kapuscinski); "The Benedictions (Afrinigan)," "The Pilgimage," (Gisele Kapusckinski and Mahin Hambly); "Dash Akol," (Richard Arndt and Mansour Ekhtiar); "Dead End," (Price Meade); "The Doll Behind the Curtain," (Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak); "The Spinster," "The Mirage," (Siavosh Danesh); "Davud the Hunchback," "Haji Morad," (Hubert Darke); "The Woman Who Lost the Man," (Guity Nashat and Marilyn R. Waldman).Google Scholar
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Sadeqi, Bahram, "Imminent," translated by Karim Emami. Kayhan International Supplement (September 2, 1965).Google Scholar
Saffarzadeh, Tahereh, The Red Umbrella. Iowa City: 1969. Windhover Press.Google Scholar
Fifteen poems originally published in English, though some were probably first written in Persian. Persian versions of eight of these poems appeared later in Sadd-o Bazovan.Google Scholar
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The stories translated are: "Dandil" (Hasan Javadi), "Calm in the Presence of Others," "The Game is Over" (Robert Campbell), "Keykavus, Baldy and Me" (Hasan Javadi and Robert Campbell), and "The Rubbish Heap" (Julie Scott Meisami).Google Scholar
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Translations of "On the Martyrdom of Khosrow Ruzbeh," "On the Martyrdom of Khosrow Golesorkhi," "Rome, 12 January, 1977," "Nocturne," "Allegory," and "In the Cool Inside."Google Scholar
Shamlu, Ahmad, "Lyric: The Greatest Desire," "I remember one crow (for Esma'il Kho'i)," "Fog," translated by David Anderson, and also, separately, by Madeleine Piccioto. Nassau Literary Review (Spring 1978): 12 - 13.Google Scholar
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Anthologies

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This volume, like its three predecessors, contains extensive translation from the authors discussed and usually includes the text, as well. It is of interest here for its discussion of the earliest stages of modernization.Google Scholar
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Contains an introduction, a descriptive bibliography of the principal journals and newspapers of the Constitutional period, and a brief anthology of works by several poets, including: Lahuti, Aref (Mohammad AM Mirza), Ashraf (Ashraf od-din Gilani), Dakhow (Ali Akbar Dehkhoda), Malek osh-shoara Bahar, Pur-e Davud and Adib ol-Mamalek. Both texts and translations are given.Google Scholar
Law, Henry D. G, editor, Life and Letters, 63:148 (December 1949),Google Scholar
This is the first anthology of modern Persian literature in English translation to be published. Unfortunately, the journal Life and Letters is available only in the collections of a few, large libraries. Law selected and translated the prose selections, A. J. Arberry the poetry: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, "The Pilgrimage"; H. B. Javan, "The Painter"; Rahmat Mostafavi, "The First of the Month"; Mohammad Hejazi, "A New Year Excursion," "The Company of Prisoners"; Hamid Rahnoma, "Rain"; Sadeq Chubak, "Yahya," "The Inquest"; Sadeq Hedayat, "The Dawn," "Daud the Hunchback," "Cul-de-Sac"; Iraj, "Epitaph"; Farzad, "The Veil of Darkness"; Fereydun Tavallali, "Mary"; Ra'di, "The Cup of Life," "Stanzas from ‘The Glance"1; Khanlari, "The Eagle"; Eslami, "The Farewell Letter"; and Golchin, "The Curtain Fell".Google Scholar
Farzan, Massud, kashan to kalamazoo: Poems and Poems in Translation. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Shiraz: 1977. Pahlavi University Press.Google Scholar
Translations from five modern and six classical Persian poets (and one from Azeri Turkish) as well as a number of poems in English by the author: Forugh Farrokhzad, "The Bird Was Merely a Bird," "I Feel Sad for the Garden," "O Bejeweled Land!" "Someone Who Isn't Like Anyone," "Blues," "Only the Voice Remains," "After Age Seven," "A Window is Enough for Me," "Lets Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season," "Love Song"; Sohrab Sepehri, "The Sound of Water's Footsteps"; Ahmad Shamlu, "Threnody"; Mehdi Akhavan-Saless, "Ghazal"; Mahmud Azad, "The Birds Are Gone"; M. H. Shahr-yar, "Haydar Baba."Google Scholar
Hamalian, Leo and Yohannan, John D., editors, New Writing from the Middle East. New York: 1978. Mentor, New American Library.Google Scholar
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Hillmann, Michael C. "Major Voices in Contemporary Persian Literature," Literature East and West; Austin, Texas: Volume XX, nos. 1-4, January-December 1976. 351 pages.Google Scholar
Contains brief introductions, translations and plot summaries of works by a number of contemporary poets and authors: Mohammad AM Jamalzadeh, "Persian in Sugar" (Seyed Manoochehr Moosavi); Nima Yushij, Ten Poems: "Hey People," "Tap Tap," "The Boatman," "The Lost Bull," "My Field Has Gone Dry," "Snow," "By the Riverbank," "The Host," "It's Night," "My House is Cloudy" (Leonardo P. Alishan); Bozorg Alavi, "From Scraps of Paper from Prison" (Donald A. Shojai), "The Man from Gilan" (Seyed Manoochehr Moosavi), and Her Eyes, a plot summary (Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar); Sadeq Hedayat, "The Patient Stone," and "Dead End" (Stephen L. McFarland, Guity Nashat, Marilyn Robinson Waldman); Jalal Al-e Ahmad, "The Mobilization of Iran" (David C. Champagne), "What are the University and Education Doing?" (Michael C. Hillmann), and The Cursing of the Land, a plot summary (Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar); Sadeq Chubak, "The Sigh of Mankind," and "The Kerosene Man" (Leonard Bogle, Carter Bryant); Beh'Azin, "The Graveyard of Time," and "The Roof of Hajj Hasan's Shop" ((Stephen L. McFarland, Mehrdad Bavarian); Forugh Farrokhzad, Fourteen Poems: "The Captive," "The Kiss," "The Hidden Dream," "Face to Face with God," "The Sin," "The Wall," "The World of Shadows," "Divine Rebellion," "The Couple," "Friday," "The Gift," "My Heart is Heavy," "The Wind-Up Doll" (Michael C. Hillmann), "Another Birth" (Karim Emami). Mehdi Akhavan-Saless, Seven Poems: "Sorrow," "Winter," "Complaint," "Dandelion," "The Inscription," "Suddenly the Setting of Which Star?" "I Saw Susa" (Leonardo P. Alishan); Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, "Introductory Note" (Mary Nichols, Seyed Manoochehr Moosavi), "The Umbrella," and "The Beggar" (John R. Perry, Sudabeh Azar); Ali Mohammad Afghani, Ahu Khanom's Husband, a plot summary (Paul Sprachman); Nader Naderpur, Four Poems: "The Spirit," "Unacknowledged," "From the Heart of the Night," "Elegy for the Desert and the City" (Laurie Stevenson, Ali A. Eftekhary); Ahmad Shamlu, Six Poems: "The Fairies" (Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar, Diane L. Wilcox), "Ayda in the Mirror" (Leonardo P. Alishan), "Anthem (In memory of Jalal Al-e Ahmad)" (Esma'il Kho'i), "Somber Song," "Graveside Eulogy (On the Martyrdom of Khosrow Ruzbeh)," "The Greatest Wish" (Michael C. Hillmann); Ebrahim Golestan, "Esmat's Journey" (Carter Bryant); Samad Behrangi, "Preface to An Investigation of Educational Problems in Iran (Seyed Manoochehr Moosavi); Nader Ebrahimi, "The Wind of Mehregan" (Diane Wilcox, Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar); and Hushang Golshiri, Prince Ehtejab (Minoo R. Buffington). There is also a study of Reza Baraheni.
Hillmann, Michael C. guest editor, "Literature and Society in Iran," Iranian Studies: xv, 1 - 4 (1982).Google Scholar
Studies of works by several modern authors— Sadeq Hedayat, Foruq Farrokhzad, Nader Ebrahimi, Ebrahim Golestan and Tahereh Saffarzadeh --together with translations of: Sadeq Chubak, "An Afternoon in Late Autumn"; Jalal Al-e Ahmad, "Pink Nail Polish"; Sohrab Sepehri, "Water's Footsteps"; and Goli Taraqi, "The Great Lady of my Soul."Google Scholar
Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad, An Anthology of Modern Persian Poetry. Selected and translated with an introduction by Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad. Boulder, Colorado: 1978. Westview Press.Google Scholar
Selected poems from the works of twenty-six modern poets together with brief introductions to their lives and works. This is by far the largest and most comprehensive collection of contemporary Persian poetry available in English, and includes many authors not translated elsewhere: Nima Yushij, "On the Riverbank," "Moonlight," "Makhola," "Taptap," "Barque," "It's Night," "My House is Cloudy," "Woe and Wellaway"; Fereydun Tavallali, "Moonlight"; Manuchehr Sheybani, "Candle Mass"; Esma'il Shahrudi, "Disast e r , " "Dream"; Ahmad Shamlu, "Allegory," "Nocturnal," "Tablet," "Dark Song," "May My Prison…," "Aida in the Mirror," "The Last Arrow," "The Gap," "The Song of Abraham in the Fire"; Hushang Ebtehaj, "Coral," "Night-Bound," "Feeling"; Siavosh Kasra'i, "Historical," "The Story of the Nay-Saying Man"; Nosrat Rahmani, "Friday Afternoon in the Fall," "Turn"; Bizhan Jalali, " … , " " … " ; Mehdi Akhavan- Saless, "Lament," "My Grove," "Inscription," "The Return of the Ravens"; Sohrab Sepehri, "The Primal Call," "To the Companions’ Orchard," "As Long as There Are Poppies,"; Nader Naderpur, "Ghom," "Faraway Star," "Pygmalion," "Unsaid"; Manuchehr Ateshi, "Daggers, Kisses, Promises," "Mountain Song"; Yadollah Roya'i, "Sea Song 14," "Sea Song 33"; Mahmud Azad, "Mirrors Are Empty," "Not Man Alone"; Mahmud Kianush, "Minds of Mirror," "Silence"; Forugh Farrokhzad, "Those Days," "The Wind Will Take Us," "The Wind-Up Doll," "My Lover," "Gift," "Mate," "The Bird Was Only a B i r d , " "I'll Be Greeting the Sun Again," "Friday," "Another Birth," "Someone Who Isn't Like Anyone," "I Pity the Garden"; Manuchehr Neyestani, "Factory"; Mohammad Hoquqi, "Intercourse," "The Day Was the Day of Rain"; Meymanat Mirsadeqi, "After the Rain"; Mohammad AN Sepanlu, "Meditation in the Night," "Sidewalk 5"; Esma'il Kho'i, "Chain," "Cycle," "Limbo"; Kiumars Monshizadeh, "In the Years before Astronomy," "An Inn along the Road," "A Colorful Dream," "Song," "The Sad Territory of Don Quixote"; Mohammad Reza Shafi'i-Kadkani, "Necessity," "Look What You See There"; Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, "Story," "A News Story".Google Scholar
Ricks, Thomas M., editor, The Literary Review: Iran, volume xviii: 1 (1974).Google Scholar
Contains translations of works by: Jalal Al-e Ahmad, "The Old Man was Our Eyes" (Thomas M. Ricks); Mohammad AM Jamalzadeh, "Preface to Yiki Bud, Yiki Nabud" (Haideh Daragahi); Samad Behrangi, "The Little Black Fish" (Donald C. Croll); Sadeq Chubak, "Monsieur Elias" (William L. Hanaway, J r . ) ; Ebrahim Golestan, "My Neighbor's Parrot Died" (Massud Farzan); Sadeq Hedayat, "The Man Who Lost His Passion" (Jerome W. Clinton); Bahram Sadeqi, "With Deepest Regrets" (Marcia E. Mottahedeh); Forugh Farrokhzad, "Someone Like No One Else" (Thomas M. Ricks); Nader Naderpur, "Night Flower," "Fortune Teller" (Ahmad Mirala'i); Mehdi Akhavan-Saless, "My Garden," "The Inscription" (Sorour Soroudi); Ahmad Shamlu, "On Night," "Mist," "The Fish," "A Sketch" (Michael C. Hillmann); and Nima Yushij, "My House is Cloudy," "It's Night," "A Story, not new," "Along the Riverbank," "Snow" (Ahmad Mirala'i).Google Scholar
The author Ebrahim Golestan raised objections to the way he was translated and the comments made about him in a letter published in vol. 20, no. 1 (Fall 1976): 126 of the Literary Review.Google Scholar
Southgate, Minoo S., Modern Persian Short Stories. Edited and translated by Minoo S. Southgate. Washington, D.C.:1980. Three Continents Press. Sadeq Hedayat, "Seeking Absolution," Ebrahim Golestan, "The Carrousel," Jalal Al-e Ahmad, "The Joyous Celebration," Simin Daneshvar, "A Land like Paradise," Bahram Sadeqi, "Teaching in a Pleasant Spring," Jamal Mirsadeqi, "The Snow the Dogs, the Crows," Mahmud Kiyanush, "Gowhartaj's Father," Naser Taqva'i, "Agha Julu," Nader Ebrahimi, "Why Do They Go Back?," Sadeq Chubak, "The First Day in the Grave," Shapur Qarib, "The Warm South," Ahmad Mahmud, "Of Weariness," Mahshid Amirshahi, "The End of the Passion Play," Khosrow Shahani, "The Historic Tower," and Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, "The Game is Up."Google Scholar
Squires, Geoffrey and Reza Nematollahi, "Contemporary Iranian Poetry," Poesie Vivante, 28 (1969):187 - 194.Google Scholar
This article first gives a brief and unenthusiastic definition of she'r-e now, and then offers translations of a number of modernist poets: Ahmad Reza Ahmadi, "O Blue Mankind"; Mahmud Azad, "A Long Blue Season"; Hushang Ebtehaj, "Emotion"; Forugh Farrokhzad, "Daybreak," "Journey Poem," "Poem"; Mohammad Hoquqi, "Dust at the Foot of the Watermill"; Siyavosh Kasra'i, "Echo; Nader Naderpur, "Qum," "Square"; Esma'il Nuri-Ala, "A Memory for the New Generation"; Ahmad Shamlu, "The Death of the Nazarene," "Midnight," "Shape," "Song for Acquaintance," "What Can I Say? Nothing"; and Nima Yushij, "Makhula," "Night,"Google Scholar

Studies Containing Translations

Alvi, Sajida, "Bozorg Alavi's Writings From Prison." Muslim World, 67 (1977):205 - 22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bashiri, I raj Hedayat's Ivory Tower: Structural Analysis of the Blind Owl. Minneapolis:1974. Manor House.Google Scholar
This study includes a translation of The Blind Owl under the title The Recluse, pages 53-133.Google Scholar
Beard, Michael, "Character and Psychology in Hedayat's Buf-e Kur," Edebiyat i:2 (1976) :207 - 18.Google Scholar
Emami, Karim, "A Pinch of Poetry," Kayhan International, June 24, 1968.Google Scholar
Contains a translation of Sepehri's Payami dar rah.Google Scholar
Farzan, Massud, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Modern Persian Poet." Books Abroad no. 42 (1968) :539 - 41.Google Scholar
Contains translations of "The Bird Was Merely a Bird," and "Someone Who Isn't Like Anyone Else."Google Scholar
Hillmann, Michael C, Hedayat's ‘The Blind Owl’ Forty Years After. Compiled and edited by Hillmann, Michael C.. Austin, Texas: 1978. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Middle East Monographs, No. 4.Google Scholar
Translations of the stories "Buried Alive" and "Three Drops of Blood", 43-67. The essays have translated passages passim, mostly from The Blind Owl.Google Scholar
Hillmann, Michael C, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Modern Iranian Poet." Middle Eastern Women Speak, edited by Bezirgan, Najm and Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock, Austin, Texas: 1977. University of Texas, at Austin:291 - 317.Google Scholar
Hillmann, Michael C, "Sexuality in the Verse of Forugh Farrokhzad and the Structuralist View," Edebiyat iii:2 (1978):191 - 211.Google Scholar
Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad, "A Well Amid the Waste: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ahmad Shamlu." World Literature Today, 51 (1977):201 - 206.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Loraine, Michael B. "A memoir on the Life and Poetical Works of Maliku'l-Shu'ara Bahar." IJMES, 3 (1972): 140 - 168.Google Scholar
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Contains synopses of the stories.Google Scholar
Rahman, Munibur "Nima Yushij: Founder of the Modernist School of Persian Poetry." Bulletin of the Institute of Islamic Studies, no. 4 (1960):28 - 45.Google Scholar
Contains translated excerpts of five poems.Google Scholar
Schalit, Naomi B., "Ahmad Shamlu:A Poet in Exile." Nassau Literary Review, (Spring 1978):6 - 11.Google Scholar
Contains an extensive interview with Shamlu about his views of poetry and translation.Google Scholar
Soroudi, Sorour, "Poet and Revolution," Iranian Studies, xii (1979):3 - 41, 239 - 73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Contains brief passages of translation from a number of the poets of the Constitutional period.Google Scholar
Taheri, Amir, "The ‘Green God’ of Persian Poetry," Kayhan International, September 29, 1970.Google Scholar
Contains a translation of Sepehri's Khane-ye dust kojast.Google Scholar
Tikku, Girdhari, "Furugh-i Farrukhzad: A New Direction in Persian Poetry." Studia Islamica 26 (1967): 149 - 173.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tikku includes complete translations of twelve poems and of passages from a number of others:"Kiss," "The Unfamiliar," "On Living," "Sin," "Bath," "Futility," "Darkness," "Life," "Transient," "Gift," "Upon the Earth," "Another Birth." He also translates the titles of virtually all of the poems in Farrokhzad's published collections and explains their meanings.Google Scholar
Wickens, G. M., "Bozorg Alavi's Portmanteau." University of Toronto Quarterly, 28 (1958): 116 - 133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Includes critical synopses of and translated passages from the six stories in the Portmanteau (chamadan) collection.Google Scholar
Wickens, G. M., "Poetry in Modern Persia," University of Toronto Quarterly, 29 (1960) :262 - 281.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
A number of brief poems and brief passages from longer poems are translated, passim.Google Scholar
Windfuhr, Gernot, "A Linguist's Criticism of Persian Litera- . ture," Neue Methodologie in der Iranistik. Edited by Frye, Richard N.. Wiesbaden: 1974. Otto Harrassowitz.Google Scholar
Part two of this essay includes a translation of Baraheni's "Elegy for One Bird."Google Scholar
Windfuhr, Gernot, "Foruq's "Born Again": An Analysis and Interpretation," Edebiyat ii:2 (1977) :135 - 61.Google Scholar
Yarshater, Ehsan, "The Modern Literary Idiom," Iran Faces the Seventies. Edited by Yarshater, Ehsan. New York: 1971.Google Scholar