Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi ( fa, لیلی گلستان تقوی شیرازی; born 14 July

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

) is an

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

ian

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, and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in

. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer

Ebrahim Golestan Ebrahim Golestan ( fa, , born 19 October 1922) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has lived in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975. He was closely associated with the eminent Iranian poet Forou ...

, the sister of the late photojournalist

Kaveh Golestan Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi ( fa, کاوه گلستان; 8 July 1950 – 2 April 2003) was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War. ...

and the mother of filmmaker

Mani Haghighi Mani Haghighi ( fa, مانی حقیقی; born 4 May 1969) is an Iranian film director, writer, film producer and actor. Haghighi started making movies in 2001. Early life and education Haghighi was born in Tehran, the son of the translator and ...

. She spent a number of her formative years in Abadan, where her father worked as a filmmaker.

Translations

* How Babies are Made, Andrew Andry * Life, War and Nothing Else, Oriana Fallaci * The Strange Story of Spermato … * Story Number 3, Eugène Ionesco * Mira, Christopher Frank * Tistou of the Green Thumbs, Maurice Druon * Two Plays from Ancient China * Sohrab Sepehri, Poet - Painter * Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez * The Man Who Had Everything, Everything, Everything, Miguel Angel Asturias * The Fragrance of Guava, Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Hellenism, Yiannis Ritsos * Citizen Pigeon, Romain Gary * Stories and Myths, Leonardo da Vinci * Ondine, Jean Giraudoux * If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino * ''Hekayat-e Hal'' ("The Story of My Condition Now"), a long interview with Ahmad Mahmoud * Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino * A two volume book about Ali Hatami and his works * Interview with Marcel Duchamp Pierre Cabanne * About Colours, Wittgenstein * Life with Picasso, Françoise Gilot * Picasso, David Hockney * Mark Rothko, Sean Scully * Van Gogh, Gauguin * Marcel Duchamp speaks about Readymades

Author

* ''Majmooaye Honarhaye Tajasomi Moaser''

References

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A photo of her in Golestan Gallery
1944 births Iranian translators Living people Iranian Writers Association members {{Iran-writer-stub