Reza Espili

Reza Espili
Born	(1973-07-09) 9 July 1973 (age 51)
Occupation(s)	Poet, translator, journalist
Years active	1993–present

Reza Espili (Persian: رضا اسپیلی, full name Reza Moradi Espili, born in 1973, Tehran) is an Iranian-French poet, translator and journalist.

Biography

Reza Espili began his literary career with the publication of his poems in magazines like Tchista as well as Kelk monthly when he was teenager. His collection of poems titled Darha va Kucheh (Street and the Doors) was published in 2007.^[1] In 2001, his translation of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece, was published and has been reprinted six times so far.^[2] He continued in the following years translating works in the field of humanities, including the classic Fascism and Big Business^[3] (Tehran, 2004) written by the French sociologist Daniel Guérin.

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Meantime, he has also published articles, poems and interviews in various journals and monthlies. Since 2003, he joined the editorial board of the Naghd e Now bi-monthly (New Critisim); first as the editor of the cultural service and then in the last six numbers, ending in July 2006, as editor-in-chief.^{[citation needed]}

Reza Espili founded the website Rouzgar in 2004.^{[4][better source needed]} A collection of his writings and translations, in the form of books, articles or podcasts are available on this website. He has been living in France since 2010. In France, he presented a radio program in Radio Agora of Nanterre city, called Les Lettres persanes, about contemporary Iranian poets. Every program was to present a poet in a brief biography then reciting one of their poems often in bilingual Persian-French.^[5] Some of his poems have been published in literary magazines such as A^[6] and Mot à Maux.^[7]

Works (books)

• Street and the doors, selection of poems, Saless Publishers, Tehran, 2007^[1]

Translations (into Persian)

• Voltaire, Candide or Optimism, Norton Critical Editions, Translated and edited by Robert Adams, 1991.^[2]
• Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, Socialism and Man in Cuba, Pathfinder Press, 2009.^[8]
• Daniel Guérin, Fascism and Big Business, Pathfinder Press, 1973.^[3]
• Leon Trotsky, Art and Revolution, Pathfinder Press, 1992.^[9]
• Leon Trotsky, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany, Pathfinder Press, 1971.^[10]

E-Books

• Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power, The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy, Paradigm Publishers, 2007.^[11]
• George Novack, Revolutionary Dynamics of Women's Liberation, Pathfinder Press, 1969.^[12]
• Fred Halstead, What Workers Should Know About Nuclear Power, Pathfinder Press, 1981.^[13]
• Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism.^[14]

Translation from French

• Tancrède Ramonet, Ni Dieu ni maître, Une histoire de l'anarchisme (scénario), L'intégrale, 2016.^[15]
• Marqui de Sade, Idée sur les romans, Arléa, 1997.^[16]
• Daniel Guérin, La Révolution française et nous, Maspero, 1964.^[17]

Reference

1. Espili, Reza (2007). درها و کوچه (in Persian). Tehran: Saless Publishers. ISBN 9789643803278.
2. Espili, Reza (2001). کاندید / ولتر (in Persian). Tehran: Negah Publishers. ISBN 9789643510619.
3. Espili, Reza (2004). فاشیسم و بنگاه‌های کلان اقتصادی/دانیل گرن (in Persian). Tehran: Ghatreh Publisher. ISBN 9643412989.
4. "Wayback Machine". web.archive.org.
5. ESPILI, Reza (17 September 2016). "Les Lettres persanes". Radio Agora of Nanterre city. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
6. Espili, Reza (2018). "Journée d'hiver et autres poèmes". Revue A, Littérature – Action (in French). 3: 93. ISBN 979-10-92448-18-4. ISSN 1270-9131. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
7. Espili, Reza. "Laisser des traces, Numéros spécial, juin 2022". La revue mot à Maux (in French). 21: 5. ISSN 1773-9098.
8. Espili, Reza (2001). سوسیالیسم‌ / ارنستو چه‌گوارا، فیدل کاسترو (in Persian). Eshareh Publisher. ISBN 9645772869.
9. Espili, Reza (2006). هنر و انقلاب (نوشته‌هایی در ادبیات سیاست و فرهنگ) / لئون تروتسکی (in Persian). Tehran: Digar Publisher. ISBN 9789647188838.
10. Espili, Reza (2008). نبرد با فاشیسم در آلمان و مبارزه‌های مدنی با فاشیسم در ایالات متحد / لئون تروتسکی (in Persian). Tehran: Digar Publisher. ISBN 9789642864164.
11. Espili, Reza (2012). "قدرت بسیار خطرناک، خاورمیانه و سیاست خارجی امریکا / نوآم چامسکی و جلبیر اشقر" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
12. Espili, Reza (2010). "پویش انقلابیِ رهایی زنان / جرج نواک" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 2 December 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
13. Espili, Reza (2010). "زیان‌های انرژی هسته‌یی و مواد پرتوزا / فرد هالستد" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
14. Espili, Reza (2016). "تأملاتی درباب آنارشیسم / نوآم چامسکی" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
15. Espili, Reza (2019). "نه خدا نه ارباب؛ تاریخچه‌ی آنارشیسم / تانکرد رامونه" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 1 October 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
16. Espili, Reza (2022). "نظری درباره‌ی رمان / مارکی دُ ساد" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
17. Espili, Reza (2023). "انقلاب فرانسه و ما / دانیل گِرَن" (in Persian). E-Book: Rouzgar Electronic Publications. Archived from the original on 5 May 2024. Retrieved 10 March 2024.

External links

• ESPILI, Reza. "List of books". National Library and Archive of Iran.
• ESPILI, Reza. "Some published poems, articles and essays of Reza Espili in magazines". Noormag.
• ESPILI, Reza (2007). "امروز با رضا مرادی اسپیلی". بانک اطلاعات نشریات کشور، روزنامه ایران. 3676.
• ESPILI, Reza (2007). "خبرگزاری ایسنا".
• ESPILI, Reza. "Reza Moradi Espili Biography". Caroun art and culture center.
• ESPILI, Reza. "انتشارات ناکجا". معرفی مترجم.
• ESPILI, Reza. "مجموعه نوشته‌ها و ترجمه‌ها". وبسایت روزگار.
• ESPILI, Reza (14 January 2022). "Iran décès enprison du poète et cinéaste baktash abtin". Radio France Internationale.
• ESPILI, Reza. "Musique mon Amour avec Reza Espili". Accueil – Accent 4.
• ESPILI, Reza (July 2014). "آلبر کاموی سردبیر". لوموند ديپلوماتيك (فارسی).
• ESPILI, Reza (February 2014). "بحران هویت". لوموند ديپلوماتيك (فارسی).