Narguess Farzad

  1. 07/01/2009

    Translating Farzaneh Khojandi

    by Jo Shapcott

    Jo Shapcott enthuses about the 'magic' of translating Farzaneh Khojandi with Narguess Farzad. She talks about the 'daunting' challenges she faced coming to terms with a poet whose work 'seemed worlds away from the modern, urban context of my own work'.

  2. 09/10/2008

    A Guardian Podcast with Farzaneh Khojandi, Jo Shapcott and Narguess Farzad

    by Alison Flood

    Hear Tajik poet Farzaneh Khojandi, her translator Narguess Farzad and English poet Jo Shapcott in conversation with Alison Flood in a special Guardian books podcast.

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