Najaf Daryabandari
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| Born | 23 August 1929 Abadan, Iran |
| Died | 4 May 2020 (aged 90) Tehran, Iran |
| Occupation | Writer, translator |
| Spouse(s) | Janet Lazarian (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | PEN Literary Award for Translation of Huck Finn |
Najaf Daryabandari (Persian: نجف دریابندری; 23 August 1929 – 4 May 2020) was an Iranian writer and translator of works from English into Persian.[1][2]
Career[]
Najaf was the son of Captain Khalaf Daryabandari, one of the first marine pilots of Iran. The Iranian Merchant Mariners' Syndicate held a commemoration ceremony for Najaf Daryabandari and awarded him a replica of Darius the Great's Suez Inscriptions.[3] He started translation at the age of 17–18 with the book of William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily".[4] He and his wife Fahimeh Rastkar, were also the authors of "The Rt. Honorable Cookbook, from Soup to Nuts" [literally in Persian "From Garlic to Onion"], a two-volume tome on Iranian cuisine that have collected the diverse dishes of the country.[5]
Death[]
Najaf Daryabandari died on May 4, 2020 in Tehran at the age of 90 after a long illness.[6][7]
Selected list of works[]
- Persian Translations
- Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea
- Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
- William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily and As I Lay Dying (novel)
- Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, and Power: A New Social Analysis
- Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
- Edgar Lawrence Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Ragtime
- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Mysterious Stranger[8]
- Will Cuppy's , 1972 under the title of (, Thus Act the Great).
- Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of the Enlightenment and
- Isaiah Berlin's
- Sophocles's Antigone
- Kahlil Gibran's
- English Translations
- - Happiness- Poems by Sima Yaripublished by "mes book publishing" in IRAN
- Original works
- The Rt. Honorable Cookbook, from Soup to Nuts, [literally, from garlic to onion, in Persian] co-authored with his wife Fahimeh Rastkar.[9]
- Selflessness pain: Review of the Concept of Alienation in the Philosophy of the West (1990)[10]
- The Myth Legend (2001)[11]
- In This Respect (2009)[12]
References[]
- ^ (زندگینامه: نجف دریابندری (1309-. Hamshahri (in Persian). دوشنبه 22 آبان 1391. Retrieved November 12, 2012. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ^ گفتگو با نجف دریابندری در عمارت تاریخیِ بوشهر: هنوز ادامه می‌دهم. Persian Gulf News Agency (in Persian). 1391-01-22. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2012. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ^ "Iranian mariners to honor translator Najaf Daryabandari". MehrNews. Iran. 29 November 2010. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
- ^ ترجمه آفرینش است – گفت‌وگوی سیروس علی‌نژاد با نجف دریابندری Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine(in Persian)
- ^ https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/415666/Writer-Najaf-Daryabandari-honored-as-Living-Human-Treasure
- ^ "نجف دریابندری درگذشت". ایسنا (in Persian). 4 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "نجف دریابندری درگذشت". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 4 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ "Veteran translator Najaf Daryabandari turns 83". Iran Book News Agency(IBNA). Iran. 22 August 2012.
- ^ https://persiadigest.com/en/news/473/culinary-traditions-and-civilization-of-iran
- ^ Goodreads (in Persian) درد بی خویشتنی: بررسی مفهوم الیناسیون در فلسفه‌ی غرب
- ^ Goodreads (in Persian) افسانه ی اسطوره
- ^ Goodreads (in Persian) از این لحاظ
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- Iranian translators
- 1929 births
- 2020 deaths
- People from Abadan, Iran
- English–Persian translators