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Many people in Iran have begun to know and read American writers because of Iranian translator and teacher Alireza Taghdarreh. Taghdarreh spent more than 10 years getting to know each word and every complicated sentence in Henry David Thoreau’s famous memoir, Walden, in order to translate it into Persian. Since then, he has translated Ralph Waldo Emerson’s dense and foundational essay, Nature, in book form, out this week in Iran.
Please join us for a conversation about American literature, translation, the culture of Iran, and how translators are all ambassadors for peace.