Azita Ghahreman is an Iranian poet, writer, and translator. Born in Mashhad in 1962, she has resided in Sweden since 2006. Azita is the author of 18 books, including poetry collections, novels, and translations from Persian into Swedish and English. Her poetry and stories have been published in various languages, with translations available in German, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Swedish, French, and English. Additionally, one of her books has been translated into Russian.Her most recent collection of selected poems, Negative of a Group Photograph, was published by Bloodaxe Books in London in 2018. Her latest novel was released in Swedish in 2019.
Azita’s works have been nominated for multiple literary awards. In 2013, she received the Swedish PEN’s Prince Wilhelm Scholarship. In 2014, her poems, translated into Russian and Ukrainian, were honored with the Ludvig Nobel Prize by the Udmurtia Russian Academy. A dual-language Farsi-English edition of her work, titled Negative of a Group Photograph (Farsi title: نگاتیو یک عکس دسته جمعی), translated by Maura Dooley and Elhum Shakerifar, was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2019.
Books
English
Poetry Translation Center London (2012) Featured translators: Maura Dooley, Elhum Shakerifar (collected poems in English) ISBN 978-0-9560576-8-6
Negative of a Group Photograph,(2018) Featured translators: Maura Dooley, Elhum Shakerifar,London Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 9781780374369
Persian
Avazhaaye havva (“Evas sånger”) Ardeshir Förlag, Mashhad, Iran 1990,
Tandishaaye paeezi (“Höstens skulpturer”) Gole-Aftab förlag, Mashhad, Iran 1996,
Faramooshi aine sadei daarad (“Glömskan är en enkel ceremoni”) Nika Förlag, Mashhad, Iran 2002,
Ghahreman, Azita (2009) (på per). Īnjā ḥūmih’hā-yi kalagh ast. Malmö: Smockadoll. Libris 11262348. ISBN 9789186175009
Zani aamad maraa bepooshad (“Kvinnan som kom för att klä mig”), Ahange-digar förlag, Teheran, Iran 2009,
Shabih khaani (“Rekviem”), Arast förlag, Stavanger, Norge, 2012
Hipnos dar matab doktor kaligari , Bootimar förlag, Teheran, Iran,2014
Ghayeghi ke maraa aavard , Solens bokförlag, Malmö, Sverige,2014
Swedish
Ghahreman, Azita; Rahimi Sohrab, Carlsson Kristian (2009). Dikter: fyra diktsamlingar. Serie splint ; 002Smockadoll ; 006. Malmö: Smockadoll. Libris 11689694. ISBN 978-91-86175-06-1
Ghahreman, Azita; Rahimi Sohrab, Carlsson Kristian (2012). Under hypnos i Dr. Caligaris kabinett. Serie splint ; 004. Malmö: Smockadoll. Libris 12752249. ISBN 978-91-86175-17-7
Ghahreman, Azita; Rahimi Sohrab, Carlsson Kristian (2013). Serendips loggbok: dikter. Serie splint ; 009. Malmö: Smockadoll. Libris 14612104. ISBN 9789186175276
Ghahreman, Azita ;Rahimi Sohrab, Carlsson Kristian (2019). De mest jordliga sakernas anfall ;Malmö : Smockadoll. ISBN 978-91-86175-85-6
Translate
Jai ke piadero be payan miresad (originalets titel: Where the sidewalk ends, Shell Silverstein), tillsammans med Morteza Behravan, Hamrah förlag, Teheran (2000),från engelska till persiska
roshanaye tariki (valda dikter av Tomas Tranströmer översatt till persiska), tillsammans med Sohrab Rahimi, Arast Förlag, Stavanger, (Norge 2012), från svenska till persiska
a simple narrativ (valda dikter av Lundquist, Marie översatt till persiska) London: Hs Media. (2015), ISBN 9781780834290 från svenska till persiska
Stad utan murar, city without borders (valda dikter av William-Olsson, Magnus översatt till persiska),London: Hs Media.(2015) ISBN 9789186175306 från svenska till persiska
Zanhaa dar kopenhag (valda dikter av Hav, Niels översatt till persiska) ,Teheran: Bootimar ,(2015) Från Danska till persiska
Companion shade and wind,Författare: Shorab Rahimi,Översättare: Azita Ghahraman, ISBN 978-1542464451, (2017) ,från svenska till persiska