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 […]
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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.
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 […]
Just Say Nothing
Just Say Nothing (2009) is a collection of nine short stories written by Mohammad-Hussein Mohammadi. Red Figs of Mazar (2004) and Encyclopedia of Afghanistan Story […]
Afra or the Day Passes: A Structuralist Reading (II)
Afra, or the Day Passes by Bahram Bayzayi (b. 1938), the prolific Iranian screenwriter, playwright and director, was published in 1998 but was only premiered […]
Afra or the Day Passes: A Structuralist Reading (I)
Afra, or the Day Passes by Bahram Bayzayi (b. 1938), the prolific Iranian screenwriter, playwright and director, was published in 1998 but was only premiered […]
All Faces of Forough: an Iconographic Report
79 years after her birth, an exhibition was held in Tehran in January 2014 to present the portraits of Forough made by a number of veteran and emerging artists…
Published: Hasanak According to Dowlatabadi
The renowned Iranian author Mahmud Dowlatabadi’s latest book on the story of the chancellorship of Hasanak the Vizier (based on Persian historian Abul-Fazl Bayhaqi’s “Masudian […]
Men at Work: Cinematic Lessons from Abbas Kiarostami
Mahmoud-Reza Sani, a name that we will be hearing more in the future, has been a student of Kiarostami during a European workshop. Now comes […]
The Spell Chanted by Lambs
Title: The Spell Chanted by Lambs Series: Contemporary Iranian Novel Author(s): Reza Ghassemi, Erfan Mojib (translator) Genre: Fiction, Novel, Postmodernist Literature Publisher: Candle & Fog […]