ADVERTISEMENTRoger Sedarat is a 2015 recipient of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize in translation. LK: What was the first poem you ever translated? RS: Years ago when visiting family in Shiraz, Iran, I met a distant relative, a doctor, with a passion for classical Persian poetry. LK: Is there one writer who has not been translated into English yet that you'd urge someone to translate? There are so many good literal/logical translations of these great pastorals, which have greatly influenced English poetry, and surely more to come.

Source: Huffington Post September 16, 2016 21:33 UTC