Sholeh Wolpe’s Top Sevens
The Parsagon Review’s October guest is a literary mediator between two cultures with her translations especially of contemporary Iranian poetry and prose. Sholeh Wolpé is […]
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For the Love of Autumn, for the Promise of Hybridity
How do we know why we love something? Or, how would our feeling of appreciation be different if we begin to understand why we have […]
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons
Goli Taraghi (b. 1939 in Tehran) is an exilic Iranian writer living and working in France. Although her writings are frequently censored in her home country, they are widely circulated there and receive much attention form the public. The stories of this collection, The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons translated from Persian to English by Sara Khalili, are chosen from a number of short story collections originally published in Persian.
Bombay Rain, Part II
Written by Payam Yazdanjoo | Translated by: Poupeh Missaghi | Edited by: Adam Seth | Header Photo by Matteo Vegetti (c) “Bombay Rain” was first published […]
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 […]
Hails to the e-Real
Browsing in the card catalogues of libraries always fascinated me for two reasons; firstly, the excitement of finding the book I eagerly wanted to read, […]
Bombay Rain, Part I
Written by Payam Yazdanjoo | Translated by: Poupeh Missaghi | Edited by: Adam Seth (c) “Bombay Rain” was first published in Denver Quarterly, Vol 48, No3, […]
A Translator’s Note: Hedayat, Translated / Hedayat, the Translator
“Bombay Rain” is from a collection of interrelated short stories whose protagonist and/or narrator is an Iranian living in India, bringing together elements of both […]
Golshiri Awards on Pause
After 13 controversial rounds, the private-section Golshiri Award is stopped. The coordinators hope that by pausing the current system of annual award-granting, they can direct […]
Illustrator Morteza Zahedi’s Favorite Fiction
Renowned painter, illustrator and sculptor Morteza Zahedi was born in 1978 in Rasht, Iran. Zahedi graduated in painting in 1995 and ever since then has held […]