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 […]
Forough Farrokhzad
Dr Behzad Ghaderi’s Top Sevens
Born in 1953 in the South-Eastern city of Zahedan, Behzad Ghaderi should be regarded as the cavalier of Drama Studies in Iran. A peerless translator, […]
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…
Contemporary Persian Literature in Japan
Iranian researcher Kamyar Abedi announced the publication of two books in Japanese including examples of Iranian literature. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century Japan […]
November 2013
1. The 2013 Jan Michalski Prize Awarded to Mahmoud Dowlatabadi According to the official website of the Jan Michalki Prize, the 2013 prize is awarded […]
Let Us Steal a Lease of Life
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 […]