Najaf Daryabandari Explained

Najaf Daryabandari
Birth Date:	23 August 1929
Birth Place:	Abadan, Iran
Death Place:	Tehran, Iran
Occupation:	Writer, translator
Spouse:
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] He worked as a senior editor at the Tehran branch of Franklin Book Programs.^[6]

Death

Najaf Daryabandari died on May 4, 2020, in Tehran at the age of 90 after a long illness.^{[7] [8]}

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, Mysticism and Logic and
• 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^[9]
• Will Cuppy's The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, 1972 under the title of Čenin konand bozorgān (چنین کنند بزرگان, Thus Act the Great).
• Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of the Enlightenment and The Myth of the State
• Isaiah Berlin's Russian Thinkers
• Sophocles's Antigone
• Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet and The Mad Man

Original works

• The Rt. Honorable Cookbook, from Soup to Nuts, [literally, from garlic to onion, in Persian] co-authored with his wife Fahimeh Rastkar.^[10]
• Selflessness pain: Review of the Concept of Alienation in the Philosophy of the West (1990)^[11]
• The Myth Legend (2001)^[12]
• In This Respect (2009)^[13]

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://hamshahrionline.ir/details/32368 . fa:(زندگینامه: نجف دریابندری (1309- . . fa . October 3, 2006 . November 12, 2012 . 3 April 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180403031820/http://hamshahrionline.ir/details/32368 . live .
2. Web site: http://www.pgnews.ir/showpage.aspx?id=43413 . fa:گفتگو با نجف دریابندری در عمارت تاریخیِ بوشهر: هنوز ادامه می‌دهم . Persian Gulf News Agency . fa . April 10, 2012 . November 12, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141010184323/http://www.pgnews.ir/showpage.aspx?id=43413 . October 10, 2014 .
3. News: November 29, 2010 . Iranian mariners to honor translator Najaf Daryabandari . MehrNews . Iran . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101129235550/http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1201079 . 2010-11-29 .
4. http://www.dibache.com/text.asp?cat=8&id=3023 ترجمه آفرینش است – گفت‌وگوی سیروس علی‌نژاد با نجف دریابندری
5. Web site: Writer Najaf Daryabandari honored as Living Human Treasure. 5 August 2017. 16 July 2019. 16 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190716104435/https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/415666/Writer-Najaf-Daryabandari-honored-as-Living-Human-Treasure. live.
6. Ganjavi, Mahdi. Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East: Franklin Book Programs in Iran. I.B.Tauris, 2023
7. Web site: نجف دریابندری درگذشت. 2020-05-04. ایسنا. fa. 2020-05-05. 5 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200505061003/https://www.isna.ir/news/99021510727/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%81-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA. live.
8. Web site: نجف دریابندری درگذشت. 2020-05-04. خبرگزاری مهر اخبار ایران و جهان Mehr News Agency. fa. 2020-05-05. 4 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200504092921/https://www.mehrnews.com/news/4916734/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%81-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B0%D8%B4%D8%AA. live.
9. News: 22 August 2012 . Veteran translator Najaf Daryabandari turns 83 . Iran Book News Agency (IBNA) . Iran . 11 November 2012 . 25 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120825094415/http://www.ibna.ir/vdcaain6e49nyo1.tgk4.html . live .
10. Web site: Home. 16 July 2019. 16 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190716104558/https://persiadigest.com/en/news/473/culinary-traditions-and-civilization-of-iran. dead.
11. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12380736 Goodreads
12. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2818227 Goodreads
13. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12693649 Goodreads