Pegah Ahmadi

Pegāh Ahmadi (Persian: پگاه احمدی) (born 1974) is an Iranian poet, scholar, literary critic and translator of poetry.

Pegah Ahmadi was born in Tehran. She began writing poetry at the age of seven. At seventeen she made her début as a poet by the publication of a poem in the literary magazine "Takāpu", edited by Mansur Kushān. Since then she has regularly contributed to literary magazines inside Iran. She has studied Persian Literature at University of Tehran.

Pegah Ahamdi has published four books of poetry, "On the Final Sol G" (1999), "Cadence" (2001), "Writing Footnotes on the Wall of the Family Home" (200?), and "My These Days Is Throat" [The actual title of this book is "In Ruzhā'yam Galust" (این روزهایم گلوست). The accuracy of the translation "My These Days Is Throat" is to be ascertained.] (2004). Her fifth book of poems, "To Find Faults" [The actual title of this book is "Āhu Khāni" (آهوخوانی). Since the writer of these lines is not familiar with this book, the translation "To Find Faults" is likely to be inaccurate. The following considerations have underlined this translation. According to Dehkhoda in "Loghat'nāmeh-ye Dehkhoda" (3rd Edition, Tehran University Press, 2006), "Āhu" (not to be confused with the same word in the meaning of Gazelle) consists of "Ā" and "Huk", where "Ā" negates the meaning of "Huk". Thus "Āhu" means "Fault", "Shortcoming", "Error" or "Wrongdoing". The word "Khāni" refers to "Khāndan", To Read. It is therefore very conceivable that "Āhu Khāni" refers to the disagreeable act or habit of reminding others of their shortcomings or mistakes. Whence the present translation "To Find Faults".] will be published in the course of this year (2008). She has further published two works of translation from English into Persian, one an anthology of the poems by Silvia Plath, with the title "The Love Song of the Insane Girl" (2000), and the other, a translation of the book "Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern", by Jakie Hardy, with the title "Hundred and One Haikus, From Past to Present" (2007). Ms Ahmadi's scholarly book "Women's Poetry from the Beginning to the Present Day" was published by "Nashr-e Sāles" ("Sāles" Publications) in 2005. The first volume of Ms Ahmadi's second scholarly book "A Comprehensive Anthology of the Poetry by Iranian Women", will be published shorty by "Cheshmeh" Publications.

Ms Ahmadi has published over sixty articles on subject matters related to criticism of verse, theoretical issues pertaining to poetry and translation of poems in such monthly and quarterly arts and literary magazines as "Dourān", "Kārnāmeh", "Kelk", "Jahān-e Ketāb", "Bokhārā", "Bidār", "Sabk-e Nou", "Film", "Zanān", "Thursday Evening", "Āzarang", "Nāfeh", "Shoukarān", "Āzmā", "Negāh-e Nou", "Payām-e Shomāl" and "Pāprik".

Works by Pegah Ahmadi

Collections of poetry

* "Ruy-e Sol-e Pāyān-i" (روی سُل ِ پایانی), On the Final Sol G, 1999
* "Kādens" (کادِنس), Cadence, 2001
* "Tahshiyeh bar Divār-e Khānegi" (تحشیه بر دیوار ِ خانگی), Writing Footnotes on the Wall of the Family Home, 200?
* "In Ruzhā'yam Galust" (این روزهایم گلوست), My These Days Is Throat, 2004
* "Āhu Khāni" (آهوخوانی), To Find Faults, to be published in 2008

cholarly books

* "She'r-e Zan az Āghāz tā Emruz" (شعر ِ زن از آغاز تا امروز), Women's Poetry from the Beginning to the Present Day, 2005
* "Āntology-e Jāme'e She'r-e Zanān-e Irāni" (آنتولوژی ِ جامع شعر زنان ایرانی), A Comprehensive Anthology of the Poetry by Iranian Women, Volume I, 200?

Translations from English

* "Āvāz Āsheghāneh-ye Dochtar-e Divāneh" (آواز ِ عاشقانه ی دختر ِ دیوانه), The Love Song of the Insane Girl, 2000
* "Sad o Yek Haiku, Az Gozashteh tā Emruz" (صد و یك هایكو، از گذشته تا امروز), Hundred and One Haikus, From Past to Present, 2007. A translation of [possibly] the book "Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern", by Jakie Hardy (Tuttle Publishing).

Notes

References

* A curriculum vitae of Pegah Ahmadi on the official website of "Khorshid: Iranian Women's Poetry Prize", in Persian, [http://www.khorshidprize.com/article.aspx?id=22] .
* "A poem by Pegāh-e Ahmadi" ("She'e-ri az Pegāh-e Ahmadi"), in Persian, [http://www.ghabil.com/article.aspx?id=262 Gābil] .
* Pegah Ahmadi, "Dichter" (Poet), Poetry International Rotterdam, "Stichting Poetry International" (Poetry International Society), [http://www.poetry.nl/read/58/dichter/id/42084] .

ee also

* Forough Farrokhzad
* Simin Behbahani
* Parvin Etesami
* Haiku

External links

* Farhad Akbarzadeh, an interview with Pegah Ahmadi, in Persian, "Aruz" Literary Publication ("Nashriyeh-ye Adabi-e Aruz"), June 24, 2008, [http://www.arooz.com/mag2/1387/04/post_174.php] .
* Pouyā Azizi, an interview with Pegah Ahmadi, in Persian, "Māh'mag" World Literature, [http://www.mahmag.org/farsi/iranianpoetry.php?itemid=40] .
* Soheil Ghafelzadeh, "A commentary on "My These Days Is Throat" - Pegah Ahmadi", in Persian, "Emzā", No. 2, [http://emzaa.ir/news.php?extend.132] .
* Mojtaba Pourmohsen, a radio interview with Pegah Ahmadi and Mehrdad Fallah on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shamlou, in Persian, Radio Zamaneh, July 24, 2008, [http://radiozamaaneh.com/pourmohsen/2008/07/print_post_134.html] . Audio recording of the interview: [http://www.zamahang.com/podcast/2008/20080723_Shamlou_Memorial_Program.mp3] .
* "Forough Farrokhzad vs Pegah Ahmadi", in Persian, a short video reportage of an interview with Dr Reza Baraheni, YouTube: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_rSbeq3mTE] (2 min 41 sec). Expanded screen: [http://www.youtube.com/v/V_rSbeq3mTE&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&border=1] .