Mahmoud Hosseini Zad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mahmoud Hosseini Zad

Iranian translator and playwright

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1946

Place of Birth: Damavand, Mazandaran Province, Iran

Profession: writer, playwright, translator

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Mahmoud Hosseini Zad (Persian: ????? ??????????) (born 8 April 1946) is an Iranian translator of the contemporary German literature.
He is also writer, interpreter, literature jury member and docent. In the early 70s, Hosseini Zad graduated from the university of Munich in political science.
Then he came back to Iran and began to work as a translator for the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, and also began to teach German language in the University of Tehran, Azad University, Tarbiat Modares University and language institutes in Tehran.
At the same time he published two collections of short stories.He has translated the works of Bertholt Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Judith Hermann, Ingo Schulze, Uwe Timm, Peter Stamm, Julia Franck.
He also wrote some plays, for which he was awarded.