TEHRAN – Jamshid Arjmand, the veteran Iranian writer who was mostly known for his film reviews and works translated from world literature, died at Shohada-e Tajrish Hospital in Tehran on Wednesday from congestive heart failure. He was 77. 

He was the translator of German historian Josef Wiesehofer’s “Iranians, Greeks and Romans” and English writer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt’s “Isfahan: Pearl of Persia”.

“Little Nicholas” by French comics writer René Goscinny, and “A Husband in a Boarding School” by Italian journalist and humorist Giovannino Guareschi are among the books translated from children’s and young adult literature. 

Arjmand, whose reviews were published in many Iranian magazines and newspapers over the past five decades, is widely recognized as a pioneer of film criticism in the country.

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