Read Korean love songs in Persian
A selection of Korean love songs are now available in a Persian volume entitled "Let Me Live Like a Cloud". These romantic poems are translated by Pouneh Nedaei.
View Article'Psychoanalysis, Literature and Art' released
'Psychoanalysis, Literature and Art: From Freud to Derrida' is the title of a book penned by Ali Shariat Kashani. The book makes an assessment and survey of the impact of Freud's theories on literary...
View ArticleContemporary American Haikus travel to Iran
Ahmad Pouri has prepared a collection of American haiku poems for publication in Iran.
View ArticleConrad, Woolf to visit Iran with two novellas
Two novellas by Virigina Woolf and Joseph Conrad, 'Jacob's Room' and 'Freya of the Seven Isles' are translated into Persian by Farzaneh Doosti and will be introduced to Persian readers for the first...
View ArticleBen Sherwood’s novel hits Iranian bookshelves
‘The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud’ is a 2004 novel by Ben Sherwood which has been recently released in Iran holding Bahare Eshragh’s translation.
View ArticleWorks of noted Russian writers to be released in Iran
‘First Love’, a novella by Ivan Turgenev, ‘The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin’ by Alexander Pushkin as well as ‘The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich’ by Nikolai...
View ArticleIranian translator converts Dorfman’s ‘Desert Memories’
A collection of articles by Argentine-Chilean novelist and playwright Ariel Dorfman, translated into Persian by Abdullah Kowsari, has been released in Iran in a book entitled ‘Finding Freddy’.
View ArticleTabucchi’s ‘Pereira Maintains’ to be released in Iran
‘Pereira Maintains’, a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi which is rendered into Persian by Shaghayegh Sharafi, will be released in Iran.
View ArticleSimone de Beauvoir’s ‘A Very Easy Death’ to hit Iranian bookshelves
‘A Very Easy Death’, a book written by Simone de Beauvoir and translated by Mohammad Majlesi, will be released in Iran presently. The book holds the memories and emotions of de Beauvoir’s family...
View ArticleAmerican novelist’s book to be introduced to Iranians
Iranian translator Soheil Sommi has finished translating ‘The Great Man’, a novel by American author Kate Christensen.
View ArticleErnaux’s ‘La Place’ hits Iranian bookshelves
The autobiography of French writer Annie Ernaux, translated by Dina Kavyani, has been released in Iran. The book’s first Persian translation was released in 1989.
View ArticleLeo Tolstoy in Iran; an overview
A new translation of Leo Tolstoy's 'Confession' is to hit the book market holding Nasrin Majidi's translation. Last month, a second print of Tolstoy's ‘Hadji Murat’ (Homayun San'atizadeh's rendition)...
View ArticleShahriar; an eminent poet
Mohammad Hussein Behjat-Tabrizi, mainly known by his pen-name Shahriar, was a legendary Iranian poet of Azeri origin, wrote in Azerbaijani and Persian languages.
View ArticleOfficial says Rumi books enjoy great market in Egypt
The books of Iranian poets and mystics Saadi and Rumi sell great in the Egyptian book market, said an Egyptian cultural official.
View ArticleMan Booker Prize will now be open to any novel written in English
The prestigious UK writing prize will now be open to any works that are published in the UK and were written in English.
View ArticleAS Byatt: "I am very strongly against this change"
The decision to allow writers from around the world to compete for the Man Booker Prize has split the literary establishment. Some have welcomed the expansion of the field. Others say American...
View ArticleAL Kennedy: "It's lovely that the Booker is reaching out."
The decision to allow writers from around the world to compete for the Man Booker Prize has split the literary establishment. Some have welcomed the expansion of the field. Others say American...
View ArticleJack London’s story collection enters Iran
A story collection, accommodating Jack London’s works which were translated into Persian by Hassan Akbarian Tabari, has been released in Iran.
View ArticleProf Mullan: "It's a risk."
The decision to allow writers from around the world to compete for the Man Booker Prize has split the literary establishment. Some have welcomed the expansion of the field. Others say American...
View ArticleSchmitt in Iran with ‘Two Gentlemen of Brussels’
‘Two Gentlemen of Brussels’, by Belgian novelist Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, has been released in Iran. The book accommodates five short stories.
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