Iranian thinker and cultural theorist Dariush Shayegan passed away today (March 22) at Firouzgar Hospital of Tehran after two months in a coma.

It was that time of the year again; the time that the scent of hyacinths fuses with the smell of vinegar, and the gold fish […]

Samin Baghcheban Returns with Chaharshanbeh Soori Few years after the saddening death of the best preserver of the Iranian people’s childhood memories in operatic collection, […]

Most of Daneshvar’s protagonists are women; her attention to women’s lives and their characters were unprecedented in the fictional literature of Iran. The women she portrayed are unalike those that her famous contemporaries

Acclaimed Iranian poetess, Parvin Etesesami, was born in Tabriz in 1907. Her first collection of poems was published in 1935 and she received the 3rd […]

Regarded as the “dean of the world’s Iranists,” Eminent American scholar and Iranologist Richard Nelson Frye passed away on March 27, 2014 aged 94. He […]

Mohammad-Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, Iranian writer, researcher, historian and University of Tehran’s Emeritus Professor  passed away yesterday (March 25) at age 89. Born in Pariz town […]

Will Stand, We Author: Mahsa Mohebali Publisher: Zaryab Pub., Persian Publication Date: 2016 240 pages From the Book The sound of falling dices disturbs you. […]

Author: Kamran Mohammadi Publisher: Cheshmeh Publication Date: 2016 Available in other languages: No From the Book This is life: constant surprise. I no longer trust […]

The Oasis of Now: Selected Poems of Sohrab Sepehri Translators: Kazim Ali; Mohammad Jafar Mahallati Publication Date: October 2013 Publisher: BOA Editions ASIN: B00E257USY One should […]

Author: Bahram Bayzayi Translator: Manouchehr Anvar Publisher: Roshangaran (IR) Publication Date: 1984 (Persian); 2016 (English) ISBN: 978-964-194-117-0 AY BANU: [Attending to the wound]         […]

Author: Moniru Ravanipour Publication Date: 1988, 2004 (English) Publisher: Niloofar (Persian); Mazda (English) If the mermaid curses, everyone will go down to the sea bottom, somewhere […]

Savushun (Suvashun) Author: Simin Daneshvar Publication Date: 1969 Available in other languages:  Yes [tr. M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Savushun, A Novel About Modern Iran, 1990; and […]

Authors: Ali Khodaei, Arash Sadeqbeigi, Jafar Modarres-Sadeghi, Keyhan Khanjani, Mohammad Tolouei, Nasibeh Fazlellahi Publication Date: 2015;  Publisher: Ofoq Available in other languages: No The Book […]

Author: Fereshteh Ahmadi Publisher: Qoqnoos Publication Date: 2009 Available in other languages: No To discover the real cause of her father’s death, a girl embarks […]

Author: Amirhossein Yazdanbod Publisher: Ofoq; 2012 Available in other languages: No Stutter begins with the writer’s confession – that he has not written the story […]

Author: Asghar Abdollahi Publisher: Nilla; 2002 Available in other languages: No Asghar Abdollahi’s story revolves around the character of a young man working as a […]