Mahmoud Etemadzadeh or Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (; January 14, 1915 – May 31, 2006 in

Rasht Rasht (; ) is a city in the Central District (Rasht County), Central District of Rasht County, Gilan province, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of the province, the county, and the district. The city is also known as the "City of ...

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), also known as M. A. Beh-azin (), was an Iranian writer, literary translator, Navy Lieutenant and political activist. Behazin translated a large number of modern Western classics and some works by

Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...

and

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

. He was a member of the

Tudeh Party The Tudeh Party of Iran is an Iranian communist party. Formed in 1941, with Soleiman Mirza Eskandari as its head, it had considerable influence in its early years and played an important role during Mohammad Mosaddegh's campaign to nationalize ...

. A group of his younger contemporaries recently provided a review of his work and life on the occasion of his centennial.بخارا - بزرگداشت صدمین زادروز م. ا. به‌آذین - 23 دی‌ماه 1393.
/ref> Behazin is highly regarded by literary circles in Iran for his quality and command of

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

and the resulting beauty and honesty of his translations into Persian of Western literary works.

Works of Translation

And Quiet Flows the Don ''And Quiet Flows the Don'' (''Quiet Flows the Don'' or ''The Silent Don'', ) is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov. The first three volumes were written from 1925 to 1932 and published in the Soviet magazine '' Okty ...

' by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov '

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and h ...

' by William Shakespeare '

Othello ''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice'', often shortened to ''Othello'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603. Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulat ...

' by William Shakespeare '

King Lear ''The Tragedy of King Lear'', often shortened to ''King Lear'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his ...

' by William Shakespeare 'The Enchanted Soul' by

Romain Rolland Romain Rolland (; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and Mysticism, mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary pro ...

' Old Goriot' by Honore De Balzac ' Cousin Bette' by Honore De Balzac

Military Life

He studied naval engineering in "Brest" University in Paris, then he came to Iran and entered the Navy. He moved to

Khoramshahr Khorramshahr (; ) is a city in the Central District of Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is also known in Arabic by the local ethnically Arab population as Al-Muhammar ...

and after two years, he became the chief engineer of the Navy repairing workshop in Bandar -e Anzali. He was an Iranian Imperial Navy Lieutenant; his left hand was injured during the

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they w ...

Bandar-e Anzali Bandar-e Anzali () is a city on the Caspian Sea in the Central District of Bandar-e Anzali County, Gilan province, Iran, serving as the capital of both the county and the district. History Anzali is an old city in ancient Iran, first s ...

by shrapnel from a Soviet bomb and was later amputated. He later left the navy and started literary translations.

References

1915 births 2006 deaths Iranian male short story writers 20th-century Iranian translators 20th-century Iranian short story writers 20th-century Iranian male writers Imperial Iranian Navy personnel People from Rasht Tudeh Party of Iran members Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translators of William Shakespeare Iranian male writers Political prisoners in Iran {{Iran-writer-stub