Mohammad Ghazi ( fa, محمد قاضی, ku, محەممەد قازی; also

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d as ''Muhammad Qazi'') (August 3, 1913 in

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– January 14, 1998 in

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) was a prolific, renowned

ian translator and writer of

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origin who translated numerous books mainly from French into

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. He wrote/ translated nearly 70 books. Ghazi studied literature at ''Darolfonoun'', Tehran. In 1953, Ghazi published the Persian translation of '' Penguin Island''. The following year, he translated ''

The Little Prince ''The Little Prince'' (french: Le Petit Prince, ) is a novella by French aristocrat, writer, and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 an ...

''. Having translated ''

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'' of

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, he received an award for best translation of the year from Tehran University. He has translated more than 60 books including ''

Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emp ...

'', '' The Last Day of a Condemned Man'', ''

Captain Michalis ''Captain Michalis'' ( el, Ο Καπετάν Μιχάλης) is a 1953 novel by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. In the English, German, and French translations (as well as many others) it is known as ''Freedom or Death''. The writer was influ ...

'', '' Christ Recrucified'', ''

Zorba the Greek ''Zorba the Greek'' ( el, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά, , Life and Times of Alexis Zorbas) is a novel written by the Cretan author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946. It is the tale of a young Greek int ...

'' and ''

The Decameron ''The Decameron'' (; it, label= Italian, Decameron or ''Decamerone'' ), subtitled ''Prince Galehaut'' (Old it, Prencipe Galeotto, links=no ) and sometimes nicknamed ''l'Umana commedia'' ("the Human comedy", as it was Boccaccio that dubbed Da ...

''. Bread and Wine He died on January 14, 1998, in ''Day Hospital'', Tehran, at the age of 85."Mohammad Ghazi"
''The Parsagon Review''. Retrieved 2016-02-17.

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