Draft:Erfan Mojib

Erfan Mojib (born 12 May 1984 in Yazd, Iran) is an Iranian writer and translator. He holds a degree in Comparative Literature from UM Malaysia and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has published several translated works of fiction, including Reza Ghassemi's The Spell Chanted by Lambs and a selection of poems by Hafez entitled Hafiz's Little Book of Life (co-translated with Gary Gach).

His short stories and translated pieces have appeared in numerous journals, including the Academy of American Poets' Poem A Day, World Literature Today , Asymptote Journal , Jacket2 , Konch , and Kosmos. He is the recipient of the David Walker Prize for Creative Writing.

Translation of Hafez
Joseph Donahue, reviewing Hafiz's Little Book of Life, states: "Gary Gach and Erfan Mojib have taken up Kiarostami’s edition of Hafiz and created, not just a perfect poetic storm of well-turned lines, but a hermeneutical whirlwind." Reviewing the translation for Colorado Review, Dan Beachy-Quick writes that the translators "abundantly prove the ancient is the place at which we have not yet arrived." Olivia Braley, writing for Stone of Madness Press, finds the translation "agile and dynamic." She thinks that the "translations go for brevity and emotional resonance rather than trying to force a form or pattern on a language that these poems are not meant to inhabit. The result is fantastic: they maintain the heart, the inherent magic of the original."