Najaf Daryabandari

Najaf Daryabandari (Persian: نجف دریابندری‎; b. 23 August 1929 – 4 May 2020) was an Iranian writer and translator of works from English into Persian.[1][2] He started translation at the age of 17–18 with the book of William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily".[3] 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.[4]

Najaf Daryabandari
Born	نجف دریابندری (1929-08-23)23 August 1929 Abadan, Iran
Died	4 May 2020(2020-05-04) (aged 90) Tehran, Iran
Occupation	Writer, Translator
Spouse(s)	Janet Lazarian Fahimeh Rastkar
Children	Noushin, Arash, Sohrab
Parent(s)	Khalaf Daryabandari
Awards	PEN Literary Award for Translation of Huck Finn

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.[5]

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 Power: A New Social Analysis
• 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 [8]
• 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.[9]
• Selflessness pain: Review of the Concept of Alienation in the Philosophy of the West (1990)[10]
• The Myth Legend (2001) [11]
• In This Respect (2009) [12]

References

1. (زندگینامه: نجف دریابندری (1309-. Hamshahri (in Persian). دوشنبه 22 آبان 1391. Retrieved November 12, 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
2. گفتگو با نجف دریابندری در عمارت تاریخیِ بوشهر: هنوز ادامه می‌دهم. Persian Gulf News Agency (in Persian). 1391-01-22. Archived from the original on October 10, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. ترجمه آفرینش است – گفت‌وگوی سیروس علی‌نژاد با نجف دریابندری Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine(in Persian)
4. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/415666/Writer-Najaf-Daryabandari-honored-as-Living-Human-Treasure
5. "Iranian mariners to honor translator Najaf Daryabandari". MehrNews. Iran. 29 November 2010. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
6. "نجف دریابندری درگذشت". ایسنا (in Persian). 4 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
7. "نجف دریابندری درگذشت". خبرگزاری مهر | اخبار ایران و جهان | Mehr News Agency (in Persian). 4 May 2020. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
8. "Veteran translator Najaf Daryabandari turns 83". Iran Book News Agency(IBNA). Iran. 22 August 2012.
9. https://persiadigest.com/en/news/473/culinary-traditions-and-civilization-of-iran
10. Goodreads (in Persian) درد بی‌ خویشتنی: بررسی مفهوم الیناسیون در فلسفه‌ی غرب
11. Goodreads (in Persian) افسانه ی اسطوره
12. Goodreads (in Persian) از این لحاظ