فرزانه طاهریFarzaneh Taheri

Farzaneh Taheri, born in Tehran in 1958, is an Iranian literary translator and editor. She studied English language and literature at the University of Tehran and became known for bringing modern fiction and literary criticism into Persian with close attention to voice and form. In 1979 she married the influential fiction writer Houshang Golshiri; their children are Ghazal and Barbad. After Golshiri’s death in 2000, Taheri became closely involved in preserving his literary estate and in the work of the Houshang Golshiri Foundation. For this AlefBa edition, she is the Persian translator of both distinct components: Franz Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis and Vladimir Nabokov’s critical lecture about it. This wording preserves the contributors’ actual roles without inventing a market-facing English title for the combined Persian edition. Stronger reviewed sources support the birth year and city but do not consistently establish an exact day and month or her parental and childhood details, so the structured date is limited to 1958 and no unlicensed portrait is used. In Nimeh-ye Tarik-e Mah (Short Stories), her role is compiler rather than translator: after Houshang Golshiri’s death, she arranged 36 short stories chronologically for the first volume of his collected works published by Niloufar.