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Five-Spirited Garden: Review of Hafiz’s Little Book of Life

October 24, 2025 Maytham Khaghani 1

Hafiz’s Little Book of Life by Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2023) is a distilled version of Hafiz’s poetry— based on a […]

Four Spring Songs by Hafiz Shirazi

March 21, 2021 parsagon 0

With boiling passion’s eager haste,
Comes forth the blushing rose;
Shall we not wine like water waste,
Soft dashing as it flows?

Reza Baraheni on Nima Youshij

January 7, 2015 Leila Rasouli 0

Reza Baraheni on Nima Youshij Excerpt from the book Nima Youshij: Modern Persian Poetry, published by Candle & Fog, 2014. Collected and Translated by Somaye […]

The Top Seven Books of Belgheis Soleimani

April 17, 2014 parsagon 0

Writer and literary critic Belgheis Soleimani was born in April 1963 in a rural area near Kerman. She started her literary career as a researcher […]

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Founded in November 2013, Parsagon attempts to present a vista of the latest achievements of Persian literati and artists/writers of Iranian origin, as well as to serve as an authentic archive of books coming from Iran. The team’s activities are diverse:
Translation and localization of Persian literary texts,
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Promotion of Persian literature and culture in the English-speaking world,
Completion of an online database of contemporary Iranian/Persian literary and cultural figures.
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