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Writers Born in this Decade

Obituary: Prof. Akbar Alemi [1945-2020]

October 23, 2020 parsagon 0

Dr Akbar Alami, Iranian university professor, TV presenter, film critic, and director died of the coronavirus on Tuesday, October 13, at the age of 77. […]

The Legend Leaves Us: Shajarian, RIP!

October 8, 2020 parsagon 0

“The body of Avaz lost the soul,” wrote Kayhan Kalhor today, announcing the passing of legendary master vocalist Mohammadreza Shajarian (1940 – 2020) after almost […]

Five Poems by Bijan Elahi

December 1, 2019 parsagon 0

Bijan Elahi (July 7, 1945 – Dec 1, 2010) was a modernist poet and a prolific translator of T.S. Eliot, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Michaux, Friedrich […]

Postmortem Taste of Cherry: Abbas Kiarostami Deceased

July 14, 2016 Farzaneh Doosti 0

Abbas Kiarostami, the award-winning Iranian director whose 1997 film Taste of Cherry was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, died aged 76, following […]

Bijan Najdi [1941-1997]

February 15, 2015 Erfan Mojib 0

Bijan Najdi (15 November 1941 in Khash, Iran – 25 August 1997 in Lahijan, Iran) was an Iranian short story writer and poet best known […]

Mohsen Ghane Basiri’s Top 7s

April 7, 2014 Mahboube Khalvati 0

Mohsen Ghane Basiri (b. 1949) is the editor-in-chief of Modiriat (Management) Monthly Journal. He is a prolific Iranian theorist and epistemologist. Ghane Basiri is the […]

The Goethe Medal Winner Recommends

February 7, 2014 parsagon 0

Born in 1947 in Damavand, Sayyed-Mahmoud Hosseinizad is a dramatist, short story writer and one of the world-known literary translators of Iran who received the […]

Let Us Steal a Lease of Life

November 9, 2013 Farzaneh Doosti 0

Let Us Steal a Lease of Life: interview with Martin Turner English psychologist, poet and translator 28th August 2003 Raised in Post-War plenty, I could […]

Reza Ghassemi [b. 1949]

November 1, 2013 Farzaneh Doosti 0

BIO BRIEF Born in Isfahan in 1949 to an Iranian couple of Southern origin, Reza Ghassemi soon flourished as a talented musician, player of the […]

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