Six of these photographs were later purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The film, starring Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
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He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal.
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The film was featured in 50 festivals, winning a total of 25 awards including the one at Cannes and a Golden Dhow award for best feature film at the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
They publish books from a wide range of authors such as Simon Mawer, Hervé Le Tellier, Peter Stamm, Sarah Bakewell, Michael Greenberg, Ninni Holmqvist, Michael Crummey, Atiq Rahimi, Erri De Luca and Alberto Moravia.
With Yama Yari Sarah co-translated the Afghan poet Partaw Naderi (2008); their translation of A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by the leading Afghan novelist, Atiq Rahimi (Chatto & Windus, 2006) was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007.
Atiq Rahimi | Daniel Rahimi | Atiq Mosque, Awjila | Ali Rahimi. |
At the end of May 2010 at the Festival TransAmériques, he created a video accompaniment for the play Cendres directed by Jérémie Niel (based on Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi).
Göknar's translation of Atiq Rahimi's Earth and Ashes (Harcourt, 2004) was shortlisted for the same award.