Ramak NikTalab (
Persian: رامک نیکطلب, /ra;'mæk , ni:k.'tæ.læb'/; born 1969) is a translator and author of
Persian literature from Iran. Her specialty is in children's literature.[1] She is a member of a NikTalab family. Some of her books are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the
Library of Congress.[2][3]
Biography
Ramak NikTalab was born in 1969[4][1] in The NikTalab family in Tehran. Her father is
Ahmad NikTalab (Was an Iranian poet) and her mother is Farkhondeh Mahmoodi (is an artist from Iran).
Babak and
Poopak are her siblings.[5]
Ramak graduated from
Tehran University with a degree in
English literature and then studied
Public administration. Ramak started writing and translating since she was a teenager.[4][6] She is one of the first members of the Iranian Children and Adolescent Writers Association (Nevisak).[7] She is the first person who translated the novels of
Peter Pan[4] and
Sara Crewe[8] into
Persian language.[9][10][11] She is the author of the stories of two Iranian national characters named
Dara and Sara.[12][13][14] From these fictional characters, dolls with the same name were made, wearing different clothes of Iranian tribes.[15][16][17]
She seriously and professionally entered the field of translation and writing for children and teenagers since 1990, and her first book was the 6-volume collection "Sam Firefighter".[18]
The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran
Some of her books (It called: The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran) are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the
Library of Congress.[2][3]
Selected works
Compilations
Tales for the first grade (In Persian: قصه هایی برای کلاس اولی), Zaytoun Publishing[19]
Teacher, gardener of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:معلم، باغبان مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab, Paknevis Publications[20]
Mother, an angel of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:مادر، فرشته مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab, Paknevis Publications[21]
The author's status in Russia (In Persian: وضعیت نویسنده در روسیه), Journal of fiction literature[22][23][24][25]
The collection of Dara and Sarah's travels[26][27]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.
Ramak NikTalab (
Persian: رامک نیکطلب, /ra;'mæk , ni:k.'tæ.læb'/; born 1969) is a translator and author of
Persian literature from Iran. Her specialty is in children's literature.[1] She is a member of a NikTalab family. Some of her books are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the
Library of Congress.[2][3]
Biography
Ramak NikTalab was born in 1969[4][1] in The NikTalab family in Tehran. Her father is
Ahmad NikTalab (Was an Iranian poet) and her mother is Farkhondeh Mahmoodi (is an artist from Iran).
Babak and
Poopak are her siblings.[5]
Ramak graduated from
Tehran University with a degree in
English literature and then studied
Public administration. Ramak started writing and translating since she was a teenager.[4][6] She is one of the first members of the Iranian Children and Adolescent Writers Association (Nevisak).[7] She is the first person who translated the novels of
Peter Pan[4] and
Sara Crewe[8] into
Persian language.[9][10][11] She is the author of the stories of two Iranian national characters named
Dara and Sara.[12][13][14] From these fictional characters, dolls with the same name were made, wearing different clothes of Iranian tribes.[15][16][17]
She seriously and professionally entered the field of translation and writing for children and teenagers since 1990, and her first book was the 6-volume collection "Sam Firefighter".[18]
The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran
Some of her books (It called: The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran) are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the
Library of Congress.[2][3]
Selected works
Compilations
Tales for the first grade (In Persian: قصه هایی برای کلاس اولی), Zaytoun Publishing[19]
Teacher, gardener of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:معلم، باغبان مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab, Paknevis Publications[20]
Mother, an angel of kindness: a collection of poems for teenagers (In Persian:مادر، فرشته مهربانی: مجموعه شعر برای نوجوانان); with
Babak NikTalab, Paknevis Publications[21]
The author's status in Russia (In Persian: وضعیت نویسنده در روسیه), Journal of fiction literature[22][23][24][25]
The collection of Dara and Sarah's travels[26][27]
Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Today it is the official language of
Iran,
Tajikistan and one of the two official languages of
Afghanistan.