Ramak NikTalab

Ramak NikTalab (Persian: رامک نیک‌طلب, pronounced [ɹɒːˈmæk ˌniːkˈtʰælæb]; born 1969) is an Iranian translator and author of Persian literature. Her specialty is in children's literature. She is a member of a NikTalab family. Some of her books are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the Library of Congress.

Biography

Ramak NikTalab was born in 1969 in The NikTalab family in Tehran. Her father is Ahmad NikTalab (Was an Iranian poet) and her mother is Farkhondeh Mahmoodi (is an artist from Iran). Babak and Poopak are her siblings.

Ramak graduated from Tehran University with a degree in English literature and then studied Public administration. Ramak started writing and translating since she was a teenager. She is one of the first members of the Iranian Children and Adolescent Writers Association (Nevisak). She is the first person who translated the novels of Peter Pan and Sara Crewe into Persian language. She is the author of the stories of two Iranian national characters named Dara and Sara. From these fictional characters, dolls with the same name were made, wearing different clothes of Iranian tribes.

She seriously and professionally entered the field of translation and writing for children and teenagers since 1990, and her first book was the 6-volume collection "Sam Firefighter".

The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran

Some of her books (It called: The Voyages of Dara and Sara in Iran) are between the "A Thousand Years of the Persian Book" Series in the Library of Congress.

Selected works

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