Financial Tribune- Celebrated author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who unveiled his novel Thirst at the 31st Tehran International Book Fair (May 2-12), is working on a trilogy (in Persian) on the life and tragic fate of three young characters from Shahnameh (book of kings), epic poems of renowned Persian poet Ferdowsi (940-1020). Shahnameh, composed of 60,...

Financial Tribune- A new edition of the German translation of Kelidar, written by the celebrated Iranian writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in Persian and translated by the late German-Iranian translator Sigrid Lotfi, has been released in Germany. The abridged German version is in 400 pages while the original Persian work has 10 volumes with 3,000 pages ...