Ebrahim Golestan

Ebrahim Taghavi Shirazi, known as Ebrahim Golestan, was born in Shiraz on 19 October 1922, the son of the owner of the newspaper Golestan. A student in Shiraz and then in Tehran, without completing university, a journalist for the Tudeh party in the early forties, he broke with it in January 1948, translated Hemingway, Faulkner and Mark Twain, then in 1954 made the films of the oil consortium. In 1957 he founded his own studio, produced documentaries, including the one by Forough Farrokhzad, his companion until her death, and made feature films. Settled in Sussex in 1975, he died there on 22 August 2023, aged one hundred.

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• Short storiesمد و مهEbrahim Golestan · 1969not translated into EnglishLiterature