Sara Khalili

Journalist, editor, and literary translator

Sara Khalili (Persian: سارا خلیلی) is a journalist, editor, and literary translator based in New York.

Publications

Khalili's translations of contemporary Iranian literature include:

Siavash Kasrai, As Red as Fire, Tasting of Smoke, Collected Poems of Siavash Kasrai (2007)
Fereydoun Moshiri, Lucky Those Half-Open Buds, Collected Poems of Fereydoun Moshiri (2007)
Shahriar Mandanipour, Censoring an Iranian Love Story (2009)^[1]^[2]
Simin Behbahani, My Country, I Shall Build You Again, Collected Poems of Simin Behbahani (2009)
Parinoush Saniee, The Book of Fate (2013)^[3]
Shahrnush Parsipur, Kissing the Sword: A Prison Memoir (2013)^[4]
Goli Taraghi, The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons: Selected Stories (2013) ^[5]
Yaghoub Yadali, Rituals of Restlessness (2016)
Forough Farrokhzad, The Sorrow of Solitude, Collected Poems of Forough Farrokhzad
Shahriar Mandanipour, Moon Brow (2018)^[6]
Hadi Mohammadi, Nooshin Safakhoo (illus.), In the Meadow of Fantasies (2021) [1]
Shahriar Mandanipour, Season of Purgatory ( 2022)^[7]
Siamak Herawi, Tali Girls (2023)

Her short story translations have appeared in The Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, the Michigan Quarterly Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review,^[8] Epoch, Words Without Borders,^[9] Granta,^[10] PEN America, Witness,^[11] and Consequence.

References

^ "Love, Iranian Style". The New Yorker. 22 June 2009.
^ Messud, Claire. "The Fate of Sara and Dara". {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
^ "Talk about a revolution". 20 September 2013.
^ "KISSING THE SWORD | Kirkus Reviews".
^ "Los Angeles Review of Books". 6 August 2014.
^ "MOON BROW | Kirkus Reviews".
^ Seasons of Purgatory. 2022-01-25. ISBN 978-1-942658-95-5.
^ "Sara Khalili | VQR Online".
^ "July 2013 - Iran's Postrevolution Generation".
^ "Prison Echoes". 23 November 2011.
^ "Classmates".