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 […]
Papyrus: Book Review
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.
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 […]
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 […]
The Blind Owl
Author: Sadeq Hedayat Translator: D. B. Costello Publication Date: 1937 (Persian); 1958 (English) ISBN: 9780802144287 The night was departing on tip-toe. One felt that it had shed sufficient […]