Ramak NikTalab (born 1969
Tehran) (/ra;'mæk , ni:k.'tæ.læb'/ –
In Persian: رامک نیک طلب) is a translator and author of
Persian literature from Iran. Her specialty is in children's literature. She is a member of a NikTalab family.
Biography
Ramak NikTalab was born in 1969
in The NikTalab family in Tehran. Her father is
Ahmad NikTalab (Was an Iranian poet) and her mother is Farkhondeh Mahmoodi (is an artist from Iran).
Babak and
Poopak are her siblings.
Ramak graduated from
Tehran University
The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...
with a degree in
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...
and then studied
Public administration. Ramak started writing and translating since she was a teenager.
She is one of the first members of the Iranian Children and Adolescent Writers Association (Nevisak). She is the first person who translated the novels of
Peter Pan and
Sara Crewe into
Persian language. She is the author of the stories of two Iranian national characters named
Dara and Sara. From these fictional characters, dolls with the same name were made, wearing different clothes of Iranian tribes.
She seriously and professionally entered the field of translation and writing for children and teenagers since 1990, and her first book was the 6-volume collection "Sam Firefighter".
Some of her works
Compilations
* Tales for the first grade (In Persian: قصه هایی برای کلاس اولی), Zaytoun Publishing
* Teacher, gardener of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:معلم، باغبان مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab
Babak NikTalab (born 30 June 1967) is an Iranian poet and writer. He won the Golden Cypress for the 5th edition of the Fajr International Poetry Festival and was one of the winners of the first Abbas Yamini Sharif Award. In some Arabic publicat ...
, Paknevis Publications
* Mother, an angel of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:مادر، فرشته مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab
Babak NikTalab (born 30 June 1967) is an Iranian poet and writer. He won the Golden Cypress for the 5th edition of the Fajr International Poetry Festival and was one of the winners of the first Abbas Yamini Sharif Award. In some Arabic publicat ...
, Paknevis Publications
* The author's status in Russia (In Persian: وضعیت نویسنده در روسیه), Journal of fiction literature
The collection of Dara and Sarah's travels
* Dara & Sara in
Kerman
Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...
(In Persian: دارا و سارا در کرمان),
Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
* Dara & Sara in
Hamedan (In Persian: دارا و سارا در همدان), Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
* Dara & Sara in
Fars (In Persian: دارا و سارا در فارس), Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
* Dara & Sara in
Khorasan
Khorasan may refer to:
* Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
* Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...
(In Persian: دارا و سارا در خراسان), Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults
Translations
*
Sara Crewe, Qadiani Publications Institute; ISBN 9789644175909
* Little princess (Pocket classics), Qadiani Publications Institute; ISBN 9786002511003
* Sara Crewe (classic novel); Qadiani Publications Institute; ISBN 9780000677204
*
Peter Pan, Qadiani Publications Institute, ISBN 9789645365231
* I am angry, Qadiani Publications Institute, Banafsheh Books
* The story of my journey to Alpha, Mihrab Qalam publishing, ISBN 9786001038693
* Sam's colored balloons, Noor al-Saghalin Publications, Fakher
* Ponti Pandi's White Christmas, Noor al-Saghalin Publishing House, Fakher
* Cat theft, Noor al-Saghalin publishing house; Fakher
* Troubled Tour, Noor Al-Saghalin Publications; Fakher
* The big race; Noor al-Saghlain Publications, Fakher
* Real auction; Noor al-Saghlain Publications, Fakher
References
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Iranian literary scholars
Living people
1969 births
Iranian children's writers
Children's poets
Persian-language poets
Writers of young adult literature
Women writers of young adult literature
21st-century Iranian poets
NikTalab family
21st-century Iranian women writers
Literary scholars