TRANSLATION
Another significant and helpful tool in my scholarship as well as my creative writings has been translation. This art of translation is practised not only at the level of language but also in transporting a deeper understanding of emotions and imagination into my writing. A poet like myself thinks in one language and measures and understands experiences in a different language. Only after translating poems, names, and events from Persian into English that I found a greater poetic space to congregate my thoughts and comprehend stories and journeys.
I translate essays, stories and poetry from Dari (Persian) into English.
Past events:
The York Festival of Ideas: Untold Write Afghanistan on 20 June 2022, 1pm to 2pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2022 on 8 October, 12pm – 1pm
Cambridge Literary Festival: the recording can be found here
Recording of Cambridge Lit Fest between 27 May and 5 June...
[translated work]
Fiction
Essays:
An Observation on the Role of the War Impacting Contemporary Afghan Literature
Let’s Not Forget Educating Our Children
Poetry
Another significant and helpful tool in my scholarship as well as my creative writings has been translation. This art of translation is practised not only at the level of language but also in transporting a deeper understanding of emotions and imagination into my writing. A poet like myself thinks in one language and measures and understands experiences in a different language. Only after translating poems, names, and events from Persian into English that I found a greater poetic space to congregate my thoughts and comprehend stories and journeys.
I translate essays, stories and poetry from Dari (Persian) into English.
Past events:
The York Festival of Ideas: Untold Write Afghanistan on 20 June 2022, 1pm to 2pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2022 on 8 October, 12pm – 1pm
Cambridge Literary Festival: the recording can be found here
Recording of Cambridge Lit Fest between 27 May and 5 June...
[translated work]
Fiction
Essays:
An Observation on the Role of the War Impacting Contemporary Afghan Literature
Let’s Not Forget Educating Our Children
Poetry