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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. n– The American Institute of Iranian Studies recently announced the winner of the ninth annual Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize :— Sin: The Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, translated by Sholeh Wolpe and published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2007 and now available in paperback ($16.95). The award, as well as a cash prize, was given out at the International Society of Iranian Studies ’ conference in Santa Monica, Calif.

Sholeh Wolpe is the author of two poetry collections, The Scar Saloon and Roof Tops of Tehran. In her Foreword to Sin the noted American poet Alicia Ostriker, a two-time National Book Award finalist, writes that e“this book will be treasured by readers who crave not a clash of cultures but a connection.I” In its review of Sin when the book was first published American Poet said, e“These lucid translations capture the absolute ferocity and passion that have made Forugh Farrokhzad so beloved and so infamous.w”

Born in Persia, Wolpe lived in the Caribbean and Europe and finished her education in the U.S.; now the director and host of Poetry at the Loft, a poetry venue in Redlands, California. In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolpe writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common n— Billy Collins. The Scar Saloon is a humane and compassionate book in which horror is balanced by love, pain by pleasure, denial by sensuality, seriousnes with humor. Many of the poems are set in the Middle East, but Sholeh Wolpe is clearly a poet of the world s— Charles Harper Webb (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize).

Born in Persia, Wolpe lived in the Caribbean and Europe and finished her education in the U.S.; now the director and host of Poetry at the Loft, a poetry venue in Redlands, California. In a world where cultures and religions are recklessly facing off, Sholeh Wolpe writes careful poems that cast a light on some of what we all hold in common a— Billy Collins. The Scar Saloon is a humane and compassionate book in which horror is balanced by love, pain by pleasure, denial by sensuality, seriousnes with humor. Many of the poems are set in the Middle East, but Sholeh Wolpe is clearly a poet of the world e— Charles Harper Webb (winner of the Felix Pollak Prize).