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Name
  
Azita Ghahreman


Role
  
Poet

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Transtromer International; An Intercontinental Perspective on the Poetry of Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer

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Azita Ghahreman is an Iranian poet, born in Iran in 1962. She has written six books in Persian and three books in Swedish. She has also translated American poetry. She has published four collections of poetry: Eve's Songs (1983), Sculptures of Autumn (1986), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (1992) and The Suburb of Crows (2008), a collection reflecting on he exile in Sweden (she lives in an area called oxie on the outskirts of Malmö) that was published in both Swedish and Persian. A collection of Azita's work was published in Swedish in 2009 alongside the work of Sohrab Rahimi and Christine Carlson. She has also translated a collection of poems by the American poet and cartoonist, Shel Silverstein, into Persian, The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends (2000). And she has edited three volumes of poems by poets from Khorasan, the eastern province of Iran which has a rich and distinctive history. Azita's poems have been translated into various languages including English by Poetry Translation Centre. A new book of poetry, Under Hypnosis in Dr Caligari's Cabinet was published in Sweden in April 2012.

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Books

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  • Eva's Songs, (Persian)1990
  • Autumn Sculptures,(Persian) 1995
  • Where the sidewalk ends, Shell Silverstein(Translated to Persian with Morteza Behravan) 2000
  • The Forgetfulness has a Simple Ceremony,(Persian) 2002
  • Here is the Suburb of Crows, (Persian) 2009
  • four Poetry books (collected poems 1990-2009 in Swedish), 2009
  • Under hypnosis in Dr Caligari's Cabinet, (Swedish) 2012
  • Poetry Translation Centre London (Collection of poems in English) 2012
  • Serendips loggbook, ( Swedish), 2013
  • Awards

  • 2013: Prins Wilhelm, 2013, Sweden
  • 2014: Ludvig Nobles Prize, Udmurtia, Russia
  • References

    Azita Ghahreman Wikipedia