Karim Emami (Persian: کریم امامی) (26 May 1930, Calcutta, India – 9 July 2005, Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian translator, editor, lexicographer, and literary critic.
Emami was born in 1930 in Calcutta, a frequent destination of his father, a tea merchant.
[1] He learned his first English words from his father and returned to Shiraz in Iran when he was two years old.
[1] He became a journalist in the early 1950s for the English language Tehran daily Keyhan International.
[1] He also founded Soroush Press, the publishing arm of National Iranian Radio and Television, and established the Zamineh bookstore in Tehran, a meeting place for writers, intellectuals, and book lovers.