Three by Atiq Rahimi: Earth and Ashes, A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, The Patience Stone
Atiq Rahimiwas born in Afghanistan in 1962, and fled to France in 1984. There he has become renowned as a maker of documentary and feature films, and as a writer. The film of his novelEarth and Asheswas in the Official Selection at Cannes in 2004 and has won a number of prizes.A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fearhas also been adapted for the screen. His adaptation ofThe Patience Stone, which he co-wrote and directed, was also recently made into a feature film. Since 2001 Rahimi has returned to Afghanistan to set up a Writers’ House in Kabul and to offer support and training to young Afghan writers and filmmakers. His new novel,A Curse on Dostoevskyis forthcoming from Other Press. He lives in Paris.Erdag Göknar, a scholar and literary translator, is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and is the award-winning translator of Orhan Pamuk's best-selling novel,My Name is Red.Sarah Maguireis an award-winning poet as well as translator and founder of the Poetry Translation Centre based in the UK.Yama Yarico-translatedA Thousand Roomswith Maguire at the Poetry Translation Center.Polly McLeanis a freelance translator in Oxford, UK. She has translated titles by Catherine Deneuve and Sylvia Kristel (star of theEmmanuellefilms) as well as the award-winningSecretby Philippe Grimbert.