Ale-Ahmad Prize Granted to Literature, en fin!
This year the Jalal Ale Ahmad Awards finally announced a finalist out of the nominees to surprise the disappointed literati. The most sumptous Iranian literary […]
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Shazdeh Ehtejab
Author: Houshang Golshiri Publication date: 1969 Available in other languages: Yes Shazdeh Ehtejab (or Prince Ehtejab), Houshang Golshiri’s magnum opus first released in 1969, is […]
In the Library of Payman Fiuzat
Born in 1981 in Tehran, Payman Fiuzat started his studies as an electronics student at Azad University but then changed his major to English translation a while later, […]
On Mobility and More
After years of dreaming, months of contemplating and discussing and weeks of researching and writing, The Parsagon Review was launched in November 2013; a year […]
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 […]
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, […]