Mahmoud Etemadzadeh
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (; January 14, 1915– 2006 in Rasht, Iran), also known as Beh-azin, was an Iranian writer, literary translator, militarian and political activist. Behazin translated a large number of modern Western classics and some works by Shakespeare and Goethe. He was a member of the Tudeh Party. A group of his younger contemporaries recently provided a review of his work and life on the occasion of his centennial. Behazin is highly regarded by the literary circles in Iran for his quality and command of Persian and the resulting beauty and honesty of his translations into Persian of  Western literary works. Works of Translation. 'And Quiet Flows the Don' by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' by William Shakespeare 'Othello' by William Shakespeare 'King Lear' by William Shakespeare 'The Enchanted Soul' by Romain Rolland '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 enter Navy. He moved to Khoramshahr and after 2 years, he bacame the chief engineer of Navy repairing workshop in Bandar -e Anzali. He was a Iranian Imperial Navy Lieutenant and his left hand  injured during Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in Bandar-e Anzali by a soviet Bomb shrapnel and later Doctors cut his hand off because of that.Later he quit navy and started literary translation.