Reza Espili

Reza Espili (, full name Reza Moradi Espili, born in 1973, Tehran) is an Iranian-French poet, translator and journalist.

Biography
Reza Espili began his literary career with the publication of his poems in magazines like Tchista as well as Kelk monthly when he was teenager. His collection of poems titled Darha va Kucheh (Street and the Doors) was published in 2007. In 2001, his translation of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece, was published and has been reprinted six times so far. He continued in the following years translating works in the field of humanities, including the classic Fascism and Big Business (Tehran, 2004) written by the French sociologist Daniel Guérin. Meantime, he has also published articles, poems and interviews in various journals and monthlies. Since 2003, he joined the editorial board of the Naghd e Now bi-monthly (New Critisim); first as the editor of the cultural service and then in the last six numbers, ending in July 2006, as editor-in-chief.

Reza Espili founded the website Rouzgar in 2004. A collection of his writings and translations, in the form of books, articles or podcasts are available on this website. He has been living in France since 2010. In France, he presented a radio program in Radio Agora of Nanterre city, called Les Lettres persanes, about contemporary Iranian poets. Every program was to present a poet in a brief biography then reciting one of their poems often in bilingual Persian-French. Some of his poems have been published in literary magazines such as A and Mot à Maux.

Works (books)

 * Street and the doors, selection of poems, Saless Publishers, Tehran, 2007

Translations (into Persian)

 * Voltaire, Candide or Optimism, Norton Critical Editions, Translated and edited by Robert Adams, 1991.
 * Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, Socialism and Man in Cuba, Pathfinder Press, 2009.
 * Daniel Guérin, Fascism and Big Business, Pathfinder Press, 1973.
 * Leon Trotsky, Art and Revolution, Pathfinder Press, 1992.
 * Leon Trotsky, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany, Pathfinder Press, 1971.

E-Books

 * Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power, The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy, Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
 * George Novack, Revolutionary Dynamics of Women's Liberation, Pathfinder Press, 1969.
 * Fred Halstead, What Workers Should Know About Nuclear Power, Pathfinder Press, 1981.
 * Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism.

Translation from French

 * Tancrède Ramonet, Ni Dieu ni maître, Une histoire de l'anarchisme (scénario), L'intégrale, 2016.
 * Marqui de Sade, Idée sur les romans, Arléa, 1997.
 * Daniel Guérin, La Révolution française et nous, Maspero, 1964.