Cultural exchange development between Iran and Germany stressed
IBNA- In a meeting between Iran’s Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi, and the Ambassador of Germany in Iran Michael Baron Von Ungern Sternberg, cultural connection between the two countries...
View ArticleIran supports Afghan poetry development
IBNA- Head of the Union of Writers and Poets of Afghanistan Seyyed Reza Mohammadi said that Afghanistan’s literary progress in the years of war and crisis is due to the fine hosting of the literary...
View ArticleNever seen any literature as fascinating as Persian: Landau
IBNA- Professor Justin Landau, French author and the winner of the 23rd Islamic Republic of Iran’s Book of the Year World Award said that there is no literature as fascinating and brilliance of...
View ArticleAbolhassan Najafi Literature Award ceremony to be held
IBNA- Deputy director of the Book City Cultural Institute Ali Asghar Mohammad-Khani, pointed to the significance of honoring the late Persian language scholar Abolhassan Najafi announcing that a...
View ArticlePoets participated at Fajr Poetry Festival circle in Tajikistan
IBNA- Iranian poets participating in the tenth Fajr Poetry Festival abroad held in Tajikistan, attended the poetry reading circle “Dolat-e Bidar” and listened to the young poets of Sughd province.
View ArticlePersian translation of the play ‘Pablo Picasso’ released
IBNA- The play ‘Pablo Picasso, the Man Who Painted Hell’ by Arnie Greenberg , translated by the eminent Iranian translator Goli Emami into Persian, was released.
View ArticleIran’s Fajr concept acknowledged with poetry
IBNA- At the tenth assembly of Fajr International Poetry Festival held in Shiraz, Deputy Culture Minister Seyyed Abbas Salehi said that poetry is the main Iranian cultural asset underscoring the...
View ArticleOur father’s land is torn, our mother tongue survives
IBNA- Persian music and poetry night was held by the effort of the Iranian Foundation of Poetry and Fiction and the cooperation of the Iranian Cultural Attaché in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
View ArticleThe world knows Iranian fiction with Sadeq Hedayat
IBNA- In the closing ceremony of the Fourteenth Literary Prize of Sadeq Hedayat, Parvin Salajeqeh said that ‘Bouf-e-Kour’ is a coherent and comprehensive literary work of art that is still capable of...
View Article‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ immortalized its author’s name
IBNA- Expressing grief over the death of Harper Lee, Persian translator of ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Vida Eslamieh said that she escaped slogans and wrote her true feelings which immortalized her in ‘To...
View ArticleEco still sitting on top of the tree of life
IBNA- In the commemoration ceremony of Umberto Eco, Gholamreza Emami said that Eco was not just a writer, but a philosopher, journalist and novelist, and the three different faces, together, made him...
View ArticleGerman orientalist: Khoei, a prominent figure in Iranian art
IBNA- In a workshop titled "Layout on the Books of Lithographs" held in the House of Literati, German orientalist Professor Ulrich Marzolph described why Mirza Aligholi Khoi is a prominent Iranian...
View Article“Night of Ivan Bunin, the Poet” to be held
IBNA- The meeting, “Night of Ivan Bunin, the Poet” will be held in Tehran on the occasion of Russia’s participation at the 29th Tehran International Book Fair as the special guest of honor.
View Article‘Cosmicomics’, Italo Calvino’s collection of stories released
IBNA- Collected stories ‘Cosmicomics’ by the celebrated writer and journalist, the late Italian Italo Calvino was translated into Persian and published by Negah Publications.
View ArticleBooks as New Year gifts in European tradition considered
IBNA- The latest issue of the Iranian magazine ‘Jahan-e Ketab’(Book World), February and March 2016 is published with an introduction, review of books which refer to giving books as New Year gifts in...
View ArticleScholar deems ‘Don Quixote’ superior to Shakespeare works
IBNA- Noted Iranian scholar and poet Kewmars Monshizadeh suggests reading ‘Don Quixote’ and presenting it as a gift in Norouz, as he believes it’s superior to the works Shakespeare.
View ArticleCollected poems of T. S. Eliot published in Persian
IBNA- A collection of poems of composed by the legendary American British poet, essayist, literary and social critic Thomas Stearns Eliot was translated into Persian and released as a book by Boutimar...
View ArticleLouvre Museum eager to cooperate with Tehran’s Malek Library
IBNA- In his first visit to the grand museums of Tehran on Saturday, the director of the Paris’ Louvre Museum Jean-Luc Martinez attended Malek National Museum and Library expressing interest for...
View ArticleIranian Studies Professor Sotoudeh passes away
IBNA- Manouchehr Sotoudeh (PhD), Iranologist and geographer died on April 8 at Taleqani Hospital in Chalous, north of Iran.
View ArticleMajlis Library to unveil ‘Shanhnameh’ in Finnish language
IBNA- The unveiling ceremony of a version of ‘Shanhnameh’ (Book of Kings) by Ferdowsi translated into Finnish language in cooperation with Finland Embassy, will be held in Majlis (Parliament) Library...
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