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Asghar Nouri
From 7 April to 31 May 2022

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Asghar Nouri was born 1976 in Tabriz, Iran, and lives and works in Tehran, where he is active as a translator, dramatist, director, and teacher. He has translated into Farsi some forty works by French-speaking writers, including Agota Kristof, Patrick Modiano, François Mauriac, Marcel Aymé, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Jean-Paul Dubois, and Joël Egloff. With his theater company Théâtre88, he has staged both his own works and adaptations of Shakespeare in a various theater festivals in Iran, France, and Germany.