January 2019 – PARSAGON

Abolhassan Najafi Translation Award

January 28, 2019 Shahraz Savaji 0

Renowned Iranian writer and translator Abolhassan Najafi was born in Najaf of Iraq to a religious Isfahani family on 28th June 1929 and passed away […]

Angah: A Magazine for Archiving Public Spheres of Culture, Art in Iran

The following conversation is made between Parsagon’s editor-at-large Azadeh Ghahvie and Arash Tanhai, graphic designer and founder of Angah – an archival-conceptual magazine that documents aspects […]
Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner

Graduated in psychology from the University of Exceter, Martin V. Turner (1948 – 2009) an educational psychologist, poet and translator. As a translator of a […]
Kadkani, a Gem of Khorasan

There are not many literary scholars in the history of Persian literature who are also great poets; neither are there many poets who made it […]
Goli Taraghi [b. 1939]

The first chapter of Goli Taraghi’s Two Worlds, “The First Day,” begins with the narrator finding herself stunned and silent at a psychiatric hospital, stuck […]
Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim [b. 1951]

Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim was born on 24 October 1951 in one of the poor districts of Estahban, Fars province. His passion for teaching made […]

Angah: A Magazine for Archiving Public Spheres of Culture, Art in Iran

Sohrab’s Way – by Martin Turner

Kadkani, a Gem of Khorasan

Goli Taraghi [b. 1939]

Mohammad Reza Ale Ebrahim [b. 1951]