Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak ( fa, احمد کریمی حکاک, born February 1944 in

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, Iran) is a

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literary figure and

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Life

Education

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak holds a BA in English Literature and a Teacher's Certificate from the

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and Military University, Tehran respectively. He got a Masters in English Literature from the

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and a PhD in Comparative Literature from

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Career

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak was Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the

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for nineteen years. He is currently a professor and founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the

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. Karimi-Hakkak has written nineteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies''. A specialist in modern Persian literature, his works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, and Persian. He has served as president of the Association for Iranian Studies (formerly, ''International Society for Iranian Studies'') and other professional academic organizations. Karimi-Hakkak's was awarded the Yarshater lectureship for the year 2003 for contributions to

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. Karimi-Hakkak was also invited by the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies-Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as Visiting Professor in 2011. He is a board member of the

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(NIAC).

Works and Publications

* * ''Adab-e Sarf-e Chai Dar Hozour-e Gorg آداب صرف چای در حضور گرگAdab-e Sarf-e Chai Dar Hozour-e Gorg آداب صرف چای در حضور گرگ'', (Contributor), 1993 * ''Edges of Poetry: Selected Poems'' (Bilingual Edition), 1995 (Translator) * ''Remembering the Flight: Twenty Poems'', 1997 (Translator) * ''IRANIAN STUDIES Selections from the Literature of Iran, 1977-1997'', 1997 * * ''Persian Tutor'', 1999 * ''Walking with the Wind (Voices and Visions in Film, 2)'', 2002 * ''Strange Times, My Dear: The PEN Anthology of Contemporary Iranian Literature'', (Kindle Edition), 2012 (Editor) * ''An Eyeful of Earth, An Eyeful of Ocean: Selected Love Poems of Mandana Zandian'', 2014 * ''literature:its existence, its appearance / (بود و نمود سخن: متن ادبی، با فتار اجتماعی و تاریخ ادبیات ( گزیده مقاله های ادبی '', Persian Edition, 2016 * ''A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran (Iranian Studies Series)'', 2020 *

References

External links

Webpage on UMD website

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak's profile
at

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List of Author's books, Thriftbooks

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak at the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

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