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Sholeh Wolpé
American poet, playwright and literary translator
Sholeh Wolpé (Persian: شعله ولپی; born 1962) is an Iranian-born American poet, playwright, librettist, and literary translator.[1][2] She was born in Iran and grew up there until the age of 13.
After that she lived in Trinidad and England during her teenage years before settling in the United States.
I had the opportunity to interview Iranian-American poet-translator, Sholeh Wolpe and asked her about her role as the translator of the most recent collection.
She lives in Spain and California.
Biography
Sholeh Wolpé was born in 1962 in Tehran, Pahlavi Iran.[1] where she lived until age 13. She was then sent to Trinidad to live with her aunt and grandmother.
She was later sent to a boarding school in Eastbourne, UK (Moira House School) where she completed her high school.
Sholeh is an Iranian-born poet.She continued her higher education in the United States.[3][4][5][6] She lived in Washington DC, Virginia, Chicago, Redlands, and Los Angeles. In 2018 Wolpé became the inaugural Writer-In-Residence at UCLA.
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