"The best critic of a translation is its second translation and nothing else. The person who translates a text should have something to say about that."
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Media Kashigar
1956 – 2017
Media Kashigar (1956 - 2017) was a writer, translator, poet and cultural activist. More than 20 books of Kashigar have been published in Iran. He was also active for the literary awards in Iran. He was a cultural activist. He was present during the visit of Laurent Fabius in Tehran in 2015.
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