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Akram Pedramnia

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Akram Pedramnia
Born (1969-02-17) February 17, 1969 (age 57)
Iran
OccupationWriter, researcher, translator, joycean scholar and physician
CitizenshipIran, Canada

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Akram Pedramnia (Persian: اکرم پدرام‌نیا) (February 17, 1969) is an Iranian-Canadian writer, translator, Joycean scholar,[1] researcher, activist, and physician. She has written, researched, and translated many English novels and political articles. She resides in Canada since 1998 when she had emigrated from Iran.[2]

Biography

Born and raised to a working class family in Kashan, Pedramnia studied English literacy at the University of Tehran.[3] She was admitted then to Iran University of Medical Sciences[3] and graduated as a physician in 1997. In Canada, she obtained a Health informatics degree from McMaster University.

She is currently writing and translating about a variety of matters, including novels, literature critics, and social issues. Pedramnia has also frequently written for international Iranian newspapers and websites.

Books

She is the author of three novels in the Persian language,[4] نفیر کویر (Nefir Desert),[5] زیگورات (Ziggurat),[6][3][7] and زمستان تپه‌های سوما (Winter on the Soma Hills),[3][8] on themes which reveal underlying social issues in Iran.[2]

She has also translated into Persian texts by various authors such as Colm Tóibín,[2] E. L. Doctorow,[2] Naomi Klein,[2] Joan London[2] (Gilgamesh),[6] Noam Chomsky (Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy),[4] Richard B. Wright (Clara Callan), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night, 2009),[4][6][9] Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita, 2014)[4][6][9][10] and James Joyce (Ulysses).[6][11] A translation of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace had not been published as of January 2019, as, according to Pedramnia, the publishers had requested cuts which she did not agree to.[4]

She received a scholarship to carry out research at the James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, to aid her translation of Ulysses.[9]

Activism on censorship

Pedramnia is best known for her work in challenging and criticizing Iranian censorship opposing freedom of speech and expression of writers and artists. In 2013 she translated Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita into Persian, almost sixty years after its only other Persian translation.[6] The book was published in Afghanistan, another Persian language speaking nation and Iran's neighbouring country, by a Kabul-based publisher named Zaryab Publication.[12] Soon after Lolita found its way to the Iranian underground market. In response, the Iranian Minister of Cultural and Islamic Guidance declared that Pedramnia's translation is banned and has been disseminated illegally.[12] The book was later published in a different format as samizdat inside Iran.[10][6][13] Due to the same argument her recent work, the translation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, another forbidden book, has been planned for publication in six volumes by Nogaam Press, a Persian-language publisher based in London, England which aims to publish Persian writing and translation beyond the censorship concerns faced inside the country. The first volume was released on April 2019.[9][10]

An article in the The Globe and Mail describes her as "one of the strongest-willed translators active today. Confronting pernicious state-sponsored censorship, watching as dubious publishers eight time zones away put her work into print without permission or payment."[4]

The Italian newspaper, Il Foglio writes: "This (Lolita) is my translation sold on the streets of Tehran," says Akram Pedramnia at this week's The Boston Globe. "The book is forbidden, but people send me these photographs, hiding their faces, of course. And they publish these images on social platforms, showing smuggling".[14]

A German language newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung says: “Her translations are distributed as pirated or over the Internet without her earning a cent – but that does not bother Akram Pedramnia. She is even pleased. Thanks to her, Iranian readers can read Lolita or Tender Is the Night".[2]

Awards

Essays and lectures

References

  1. ↑ "Lecture by ZJJF Scholar Akram Pedramnia: "'Not to Change Even a Single Word': Disseminating the Persian Translation of Ulysses Under a System of Censorship"". University of Zurich. Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Kämpferin gegen das Diktat der Zensur (Fighter against the dictates of censorship)". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 4 July 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "«زیگورات» دوباره به کتاب‌فروشی‌ها بازگشت (Ziggurat returned to bookstores again)". Mehr News (in Persian). Tehran, Iran. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 O'Brien, Peter (4 January 2019). "A forbidden story makes its way into Iran". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  5. ↑ معرفی کتاب (January 14, 2011). "Introducing the book 'Nefir Desert' by Akram Pedramnia". Mejalehhafteh (in Persian). Retrieved 4 December 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Ghiati, Nasser (10 July 2014). "'لولیتا'؛ از نوشتن تا ترجمه و انتشار به فارسی در افغانستان ('Lolita' - From Writing to Translating and Publishing into Farsi in Afghanistan)". BBC Persian News (in Persian). Retrieved May 9, 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  7. ↑ "بازارچه کتاب. قربانی/ بهارک عرفان (Book Market. The Victim/ Mystical Spring)". Iranefarda News (in Persian). March 3, 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  8. ↑ Marashi, Mehdi (May 24, 2015). "Evening with Mehdi Marashi". Ici Montréal (Radio Inja Montreal) (in Persian). Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Snaije, Olivia (29 April 2019). "Fourth Tehran Book Fair Uncensored Moves Next to Germany". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Missaghi, Poupeh (5 April 2019). "Weekly Dispatches from the Front Lines of World Literature". Asymptote. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  11. ↑ "Lolita Translation". thenabokovian.org. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "هیولایی که از ویترین‌ کتاب‌فروشی‌های تهران سر در آ‌ورد! (Monster of Tehran Bookstore Showcase!)". Student News Network (in Persian). Retrieved 23 November 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  13. ↑ "Thanks Afghanistan". Nowrouzian weblog. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ Meotti, Giulio (25 February 2019). "La guerra dell'Iran alla cultura". Il Foglio (in Italian). Archived from the original on 19 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  15. ↑ "Joyce Translation Scholarship and Looren Residency 2020". ZURICH JAMES JOYCE FOUNDATION. Archived from the original on October 26, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  16. ↑ "THE ART OF JAMES JOYCE The 26th International James Joyce Symposium 11–16 June 2018 Symposium Programme" (PDF). Antwerp University. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 14, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  17. ↑ "Dublin James Joyce Summer School 2018". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Lecture by ZJJF Scholar Akram Pedramnia: "'Not to Change Even a Single Word': Disseminating the Persian Translation of Ulysses Under a System of Censorship"". Univerity of Zurich. Archived from the original on December 2, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Lecture by Akram Pedramnia" (PDF). wixstatic.com. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  20. ↑ "'Pleasure or pain, is it?': Translating Ulysses into Persian". Dublin James Joyce Journal. Retrieved November 10, 2017.


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