Shamlu, the translator of the era of storms مقاله

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Most of these great men of the literary field, from Yousef Etesami to Dehkhoda, from Eshghi and Iraj Mirza to Abul-Qasim Lahuti, from Malek al-Sho'ara Bahar to Khanlari, from Jamalzadeh to Hedayat and Bozorg Alavi and Jalal Al-e Ahmad, all in these stormy and turbulent times of minor and major despotisms, whenever an opportunity arose, would take up the pen and turn to foreign writers to translate a corner of the literature and culture of other countries into Persian, thereby slightly quenching the thirst of readers eager to become acquainted with world literature. The work of Beatrix Buck titled 'Leon Mourn, the Priest,','The Barefoot' by Zacharia Stanko (1939), Victor Alba (in the collection 'Hand in Hand' 1951), 'Rust' by Herbert Lopuzier (1952), Albert Chambon (1952), Arkady Orechenko (1952), the work of Du Chungara ('Let me speak'), Gilbert Sabron with 'It is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer' (1963), and especially three other writers and poets: Federico Garcia Lorca, Robert Merle, and Margot Beckle, whom Shamlu introduces for the first time. Even the names of some foreign writers have become so intertwined with Shamlu's name that whenever the name Robert Merle is mentioned, everyone remembers the translation of 'Death is My Business' and that expressive text, and envisions moments of agony and torture in forced labor camps. But in this way, sometimes it reaches a point where a poet who is not so well-known, such as Margot Heckel, has her poems published through the translation of Ahmad Shamlu with a legendary circulation of ten thousand copies.