American Institute of Iranian Studies Announces Roth Translation Prize Winner

The American Institute of Iranian Studies is pleased to announce the awarding of the ninth annual Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize to Sholeh Wolpe for her book, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008). Wolpe’s Sin offers English versions of Farrokhzad’s Persian poems fully in tune with the vibrant idioms of contemporary American poetry. The Roth Prize is given in recognition of demonstrated excellence in translating Persian literature into English, and is funded by a contribution from the Lois Roth Endowment to the American Institute of Iranian Studies. The prize was established in memory of Lois Roth, whose interest in and affection for Iran and Iranian culture dates back to the late 1960s when she lived and worked in Iran as Assistant and then Deputy Cultural Attache in the USIA and as Director of the Iran America Society.