Zohreh Taraghi-Moghadam, better known as Goli Taraghi (
Persian: گلی ترقی)[1] (born 1939) is an Iranian novelist and short story writer.[2]
Life
Goli Taraghi's father
Lotfollah Taraghi was a member of parliament, publisher and journalist, and her mother was from a widely cultured family.[2] Born and raised in
Tehran, she attended
Drake University in the
United States, gaining an undergraduate degree in philosophy. Returning to Iran, she obtained a master's degree from
Tehran University in 1967 and worked throughout the 1960s as a specialist in
international relations for the Plan Organization.[3] In the 1970s she taught courses in philosophy, mythology and symbolism at Tehran University.[2] After the
Iranian Revolution the universities were temporarily closed in 1980. Taraghi divorced her husband
Hazhir Daryush and moved with her two children to become an ex-patriate in
Paris, though she visited Iran throughout the 1980s.[3]
Winter Sleep (1973) a collection of narratives portraying the inner life of eight middle-class city-dwellers, amid the religious dislocation and
anomie arising from Iran's rapid modernization in the 1960s. Her short story 'The Great Lady of My Soul' (1982)[4] won the Contre-Ciel Short Story Prize. Scattered Memories (1994) dealt with the emotional fallout from the
Iran-Iraq War.[2]
Works
1969, "I Too am Che Guevera". Language:
Persian [Man Ham Che Gevera Hastam
1973, "Winter Sleep" (i.e. hibernation). Languages: English, Persian [خواب زمستاني] and French ["Sommeil d'hiver"]. Translated by Francine T. Mahak as Winter sleep, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, 1994.
1990, "Le bus de Shemiran". Languages: French and Persian ["اتوبوس شمیران].
1992, A Mansion in the Sky: And Other Short Stories. Languages: English and Persian ["خاطرههاي پراكنده: مجموعه قصه"]. Translated by Faridoun Farrokh as , Austin, Texas: Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas, 2003.
1994, "Scattered Memories". Language: Persian [Khatereh-ha-ye Parakandeh].
1994, "Iran Nouvelle". Language: French.
1998, "The Pear Tree". Language: Persian with English Subtitles.
2001, "جای دیگر". Language: Persian.
2004, "The Three Maids". Language: French ["Les Trois bonnes"].
2004, "The Wolf Lady". A short story in a collection. Language: Persian ["مادام گرگه"].
2004, "Critical Study of Goli Taraghi’s Works". Language: English and Persian ["بررسی و نقد آثار گلی ترقی"].
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.