Ahmad Kamyabi Mask
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask احمد کامیابی مَسْک |
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Born | Ahmad Kamyabi Mask 1944 (age 79–80) Birjand, Iran |
Occupation | Writer, critic, publisher |
Nationality | Iranian |
Education | University of Tehran, Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III |
Notable awards | Association des écrivains de langue française (ADELF) Prix 1991 Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms 2011 |
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask (Persian: احمد کامیابی مَسْک; born 1944) is a writer, translator, publisher, and current Professor Emeritus of Modern Drama and Theater of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran.[1] He is a prominent scholar of French Avant-garde theater and influential in the study of Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.
Biography
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask was born in Khusf, a village in the vicinity of Birjand in the east of Iran, in 1944 during the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran. He attended university in Mashhad, Tehran and Montpellier and taught as a school teacher. Having earned a doctorat de 3e cycle from Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, he started as a university professor in 1978 in Tehran. He earned his doctorat d'État (state doctorate) in Comparative Literature and Theatrical Studies in 1999 and is "Professor of Humanities" since then.[2]
Kamyabi Mask authored and translated numerous books and essays in French and Persian and self-published them in Paris [3] and with other publishing houses and back in Iran with various publishers, notable among them the University of Tehran Press.[4] Some of his oeuvre has been translated and published to Anglophone readership; one being his book of interviews with Beckett, Last Meeting with Samuel Beckett translated by Janet A. Evans.[5] This book has been translated into numerous other languages as well.
He is also a prolific translator between French and Persian. He translated into Persian many of Eugène Ionesco's plays, who wrote a preface to Kamyabi Mask's Qu'a-t-on fait de Rhinocéros d'Eugène Ionesco à travers le monde?: Allemagne, France, Roumanie, Iran, Japon, U.S.A.[6] and Ionesco et son théâtre.[7] He also translated plays by Jean Genet and Fernando Arrabal and introduced them to Persian readership. He also translated notable Eastern and Persian works into French: a play by Bahram Bayzai, Le huitième voyage de Sindbad[8] along with works of poetry by Buddha,[9] Ahmad Shamlou[10] and Shokouh Mirzadagui.[11]
Kamyabi Mask received the 1991 award of the Association of French Language Writers for his book Qui sont les rhinocéros de Monsieur Bérenger-Eugène Ionesco?. In 2011 he was named Chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms for distinguished contribution to French literature and culture.[12]
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask is known as an eminent critic of Martin Esslin for the colonialist quality of the latter's critique on French Avant-garde theater.[13][14][15][16]
Works
Some of Kamyabi Mask's books are:
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