Azita Ghahreman (Persian: آزیتا قهرمان; born 1962) is an Iranian poet. She has written six books in Persian and three books in Swedish.
She has also translated American poetry.
She has published five collections of poetry: Eve's Songs (1983), Sculptures of Autumn (1986), Forgetfulness is a Simple Ritual (1992), The Suburb of Crows (2008), a collection reflecting on her exile in Sweden (she lives in an area called oxie on the outskirts of Malmö) that was published in both Swedish and Persian and Under Hypnosis in Dr Caligari's Cabinet (2012).
A collection of Ghahreman's work was published in Swedish in 2009, alongside the work of Sohrab Rahimi and Kristian Carlsson. She has also translated a collection of poems by the American poet and cartoonist, Shel Silverstein, The Place Where the Sidewalk Ends (2000), into Persian. She has edited three volumes of poems by poets from Khorasan, the eastern province of Iran, which has a rich and distinctive history.
Ghahreman's poems have been translated into various languages, including English, by the Poetry Translation Centre. A selection of her works was translated into English and published as Negative of a Group Photograph by the Poetry Translation Centre with Bloodaxe Books.
Ghahreman's husband was an Iranian poet and translator Sohrab Rahimi (1962-2016).
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