Young Stalin on the cover of Martin Amis’s book Koba the Dread (Istalin-e-Makhoof, Tehran 2004) —— The Iranian translation of Martin Amis’s book on Stalin Koba the Dread (Istalin-e-Makhoof) is not only surprisingly accurate, but even elegant in finding solutions for Amis’s stylish and deceivingly simple prose. The censorship didn’t intervene in the translation, not even where Amis gives his own … Continue reading “God” is dead – how to avoid censorship and publish the unpublishable…