Lili Golestan
Born 1944
After her secondary school, Lili Golestan left for Paris and studied dress and textile design at the decorative art institute of Paris and the same time attended classes on world art history and French litrature at 'La Sorbonne'. While in paris, she also participated in pottery classes.
After four years living and studying in paris, she came back to Iran and took up a job as a textile designer at the moghaddam textile factory.
Later she joined the iranian national television as a dress designer for various TV shows . She later became the head of children 's TV program.
She quit her TV job after 7 years and published her first translation of a novel in 1967:"Life, War and then nothing" by Oriana Fallaci.The book recieved and encouraged her to translate more novels. She has since published more than twenty books as follows:
How babies are made?
La Vie,La Guerre et puis Rien
L'Histoire extraordinaire de Spermato
Conte Numero 3 de Lonesco
La Vie devant Soi
Tistou le Pousse Vert
Deux Piece de Theatre do Chine ancient
Sohrab Sepehri: Sha-er/Naghash
Chronique d'une Mort Announcee
L'Homme qui avaite toute. toute. toute
Une Odeur de Goyave
La Grecite
L'Homme a la Colombe
Les Contes et Les Fables de Leonardo da Vinci
Ondine
Si par une Nuit d'Hiver un Voyageur
Hekayat-e-Haal
Aide Memorie pour le Prochain Millenaire
un Entretien avec Marcel Duchamp
Remarque sur les Couleurs
Vivre avec Picasso
Picasso
Marc Rothko
Van Gogh
Marcel Duchamp Parle de Ready-Made
L'Etranger
Nietzsche
Between 1981 and 1987, lili Golestan opened a bookstore called "Ketab-e-Iran".
In 1988 she opened her art gallery "Golestan" following two principles:
Finding and supporting young artists and paving the way for art lovers to purchase art.