Niloufar Talebi

Niloufar Talebi is a writer, award-winning translator and theater artist.

She was born in London to Iranian parents and currently lives in the United States. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine, and an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College.^[1] She is the editor/translator of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World (North Atlantic Books, 2008), and the founding director of the Translation Project.^[2]

Her projects include, Four Springs (ODC, 2004); Midnight Approaches (2006), short poetry videos that have screened at festivals internationally; ICARUS/RISE (world premiere, Theatre Artaud, November 15, 2007); The Persian Rite of Spring, (world premiere, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 14, 2010); and Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels), a libretto reflecting on a decade since 9/11 for composer Mark Grey and Soprano Jessica Rivera.

Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) is co-commissioned by Meet the Composer, Carnegie Hall, where it world premiered on March 29, 2011,^[3] and Cal Performances, where it West Coast premiered on April 3, 2011.

Awards

• 2004 International Center for Writing and Translation
• 2005 American Literary Translators Association Fellowship
• 2006 PEN/New York State Council on the Arts
• 2006 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize

Publications

• Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World. North Atlantic Books. 2008. ISBN 9781556437120. http://books.google.com/books?id=ii53FjwLiR8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=niloufar+talebi&hl=en&ei=vXKSTMHmO4SKlwecy9ioCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. ^[4]
• "Memory of a Phoenix Feather: Iranian Storytelling Traditions and Contemporary Theater". World Literature today (Oklahoma University). July August 2009. http://wlt.metapress.com/content/u0m02j6296726050/. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 
• "Against Longing". Art East. July 1, 2007. http://www.arteeast.org/pages/artenews/persian_lit/104/. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 
• "The Art and Politics of Translation". 23 JAN 2009. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/01/the-art-and-politics-of-translation.html. Retrieved September 14, 2010. 

Reviews

• "Divine Life Force, Please Meet Truth and Existence" Review of Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) in the New York Times
• Review of Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) in WQXR's Opera Blog
• Review of Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) in the San Francisco Classical Voice
• Review of Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) in the Financial Times
• Review of Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels) in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Belonging reviewed in the Harvard Review by Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
• Belonging reviewed in the New York Review of Books by Claire Messud
• Belonging reviewed in the University of Rochester's Three Percent by Peter Conners
• UTNE Reader digest of 'Memory of a Phoenix Feather'

Video Gallery

• Lectures, Films, Theater, Interviews

References

1. ^ http://persianmirror.com/Article_det.cfm?id=712&getArticleCategory=41&getArticleSubCategory=1
2. ^ http://www.thetranslationproject.org/about-the-director-niloufar-talebi/
3. ^ Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels)
4. ^ http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=niloufar+talebi&x=0&y=0

External links

• Niloufar Talebi's official website
• Audio interview (In Persian) on Ātash Sorushān (Fire Angels)
• Interview on Tehran Bureau/PBS Frontline
• "Interview with Niloufar Talebi, the creator and visionary behind the Iranian Literary Arts Festival (ILAF)", 10/29/07
• "NILOUFAR TALEBI: MAKING PERSIAN POETRY HOT BY SHABNAM REZAEI", Persian Mirror
• Pen American Center page

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Name	Niloufar Talebi
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Short description	Iranian American multimedia artist writer translator performer
Date of birth
Place of birth	London, UK
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