“Desire to Fly” Russian actress translates Rumi, Hafez poems into Russian, Ukrainian

TEHRAN,Jan.8(MNA)--Russian actress of the Iranian TV series “Desire to Fly” has translated a selection of poems by Hafez and Rumi into Russian and Ukrainian. Anna Berzina plans to publish the collection when she returns home. Berzina has a Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran. “I have rendered some of my favorite poems of Hafez and Rumi into Russian and Ukrainian over that past few years,” Berzina said. “I plan to arrange them in a collection that will be published when I return to Russia,” she added. Berzina has been living in Tehran over the past five years. Iranian director Yadollah Samadian hired her in 2009 to star as an American woman in “Desire to Fly”, a biopic about pilot Abbas Babaii who was martyred during a military operation in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.