Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi (Persian: لیلی گلستان تقوی شیرازی; born 14 July 1944 in Tehran)[1] is an Iranian translator, and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran. She is the daughter of the filmmaker and writer Ebrahim Golestan and Fakhri Golestan ,the sister of the late photojournalist Kaveh Golestan and the mother of filmmaker Mani Haghighi.[2] She spent a number of her formative years in Abadan, where her father worked as a filmmaker.

Lili Golestan
لیلی گلستان
Born
Lili Golestan Taghavi Shirazi

1944|07|14
Tehran, Iran
Occupation(s)Translator, Gallerist
TitleChevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques
SpouseNemat Haghighi (divorced)
Parents
RelativesKaveh Golestan (brother)
Lili with her brother, Kaveh Golestan in 1970

Translations

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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  • Majmooaye Honarhaye Tajasomi Moaser

Titles

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References

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  1. ^ "About Golestan Gallery and Tanin Technology". golestangallery.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  2. ^ Ann-Christin, Schubert (2019-06-10). "Suppression has never been a barrier for Iranian translator and gallerist Lili Golestan". freundevonfreunden.com. Retrieved 2019-09-14.
  3. ^ socialinform (2014-11-21). "Iranian Lili Golestan received France's Order of Academic Palms". The other Iran. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
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