Iran marks National Day of Omar Khayyam; Persian poet, polymath
MNA | Zahra Mirzafarjouyan: Today is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the great Persian poet, astronomer, writer, and mathematician…
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Iran marks National Day of Iranian poet Attar of Nishapur
MNA – April 13 is considered a significant cultural event for Iranians to commemorate the great Persian poet, mystic, and philosopher Attar…
Commemoration of Sa’adi’s Day; opportunity to recall existence of man
IRNA – April 21, based on authentic documents derived from the works of eminent 13th-century Persian poet Sa’adi Shirazi, is the birthday…
FM spox felicitates birth anniv. of Ferdowsi
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi congratulated Mon. the birthday anniversary of prominent Iranian poet Ferdowsi. January 21 is the…
Iranians honor day of Molavi
FNA – Iranians across the country on Sunday are commemorating the day of Jalaal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi, also known as Jalal ad-Din…
Iran Foreign Ministry: “Rumi integral part of Iran’s rich history, culture, literature”
MNA – The Iranian Foreign Ministry, in a message, has paid tribute to prominent Iranian poet Rumi, who was one of the…
Shamlou’s interviews
Financial Tribune- The recently published book by Cheshmeh Publication ‘Sinbad Through the Journey of Death’, is the first volume of interviews of…
Hunt for Forugh: Writing the life of an Iranian poet
Signature– In 1978 my family left Iran with two maroon leather suitcases. There’d been trouble in Tehran for a while, but that…
Dowlatabadi’s ‘Kelidar’ in New German Edition
Financial Tribune- A new edition of the German translation of ‘Kelidar,’ written by the celebrated Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in Persian and…
‘Rudaki and 1,000 Years of Persian Poetry’ published in Kazakhstan
Financial Tribune- A book ‘Rudaki and 1,000 Years of Persian Poetry,’ containing the articles presented at a 2008 seminar with the same…
Russian scholar astonished by Ayatollah Khamenei’s consideration for literature
Tasnim- Anna Berzina, a Russian professor who has received her doctorate in Persian language in Iran, talked about the memories of her…
University of Bologna to study Iran, Italy Literature
Financial Tribune- Iran and Italy will hold a literature conference slated for March 2 and 3 in Rome, to analyze and investigate…
Simin’s unpublished poems to be released soon
Financial Tribune- Ninety unpublished poems by an icon of modern Persian poetry Simin Behbahani (1927-2014), will be released soon in a second…
Former lover of the poet known as Iran’s Sylvia Plath breaks his silence
The Guardian- Fifty years after Forough Farrokhzad’s death, Ebrahim Golestan talks about his affair with the giant of Persian literature Forty miles…
Euripides’ five plays in Persian
Literary translator Abdollah Kowsari, 69, has brought out the Persian translation of five seminal works by Euripides (480-406 BC), a tragedian of…
Leader urges people of literature to focus on US treason against JCPOA
Tehran, June 21, IRNA – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urged people of literature and poets to…
Photos: Ceremonies mark National Khayyam Day
Several organizations in Khorasan Razavi Province will commemorate the birth anniversary of the great Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam…
Ceremonies mark National Khayyam Day
Several organizations in Khorasan Razavi Province will commemorate the birth anniversary of the great Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam…
Photos: Iranians mark National Ferdowsi Day
Iranians marked the ‘National Day of Ferdowsi’ to pay tribute to Hakim Abul-Qasim Ferdowsi, a renowned literary figure whose “shahnameh” is considered…
36th Persian language, literature course offered in Latkia, Syria
Damascus, Oct 21, IRNA – Latkia Cultural Center offered the 36th Persian language and literature course as of Wednesday. According to the…
UNESCO registers Kulliyyāt-i Saʽdi on Memory of the World
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) – Two Iranian literary artworks, Kulliyyāt-i Saʽdi and Al-Masaalik Wa Al-Mamaalik, were registered on UNESCO’s Memory of the…
Grand commemoration of Ferdowsi nationwide
The grand commemoration of the venerated Persian poet and author Ferdowsi has commenced nationwide, with the launching of several programs by the…
Iranian translator Roshan Vaziri has died at 81
Roshan Vaziri, an Iranian translator of Polish literary works, has lost her battle against a brain tumor. Roshan Vaziri, an Iranian translator…
The book in every Iranian home
The works of the 14th Century poet Hafez can be found in almost every Iranian home – more than 600 years after…
Azar Nafisi: ‘Books are representative of the most democratic way of living’
The Iranian author talks about the struggle for freedom in Iran and the west – and her distrust of the virtual life…