TEHRAN --�Iranian writer Mahmud Dowlatabadi�s novel �The Colonel� has been nominated for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in Switzerland.
The book, which was published by Haus in Germany in 2009, is a powerful novel on the life of a colonel who remembers his memories of families and friends in his solitude. The book concerns issues like nationality, history and family.

��The Colonel� is a page-turning panorama of Iranian mental anguish, producing visions and nightmares like dark exotic blossoms,� the Swiss book critic Angela Schader wrote in the Swiss German-language daily newspaper Neue Z�rcher Zeitung.

Serge Gruzinski�s �L�Aigle et le Dragon: D�mesure europ�enne et mondialisation au XVIe si�cle� from France, Robert Macfarlane�s �The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot� from England, Steve Sem-Sandberg�s �The Emperor of Lies� from Sweden, and Uday Prakash�s �The Walls of Delhi� from India are other nominees.

The Jan Michalski Foundation has established the prize to honor a work of the world literature.

The authors of the short-listed works will be invited for a three-month period of residence in the Maison de l�Ecriture of the foundation.

The winner will be announced during an official ceremony in Zurich in November 2013.

By Tehran Times

 

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