IRANIAN 2 December BOOK NEWS 2015 Iranian Book News is published monthly by POl Translaion& Literar y Agency to make available to overseas readers, pub- lishers and literary agen- cies up-to-date infor- mation on new books and recent topics of Iran’s publishing culture and trends. The copy and translation rights of the books described in this publication handled by POL Literary Agency. Majid Jafari Aghdam Director of POL [email protected] Contact Person:Fariba Hashemi info@ pol-ir.com Tel:+98 (21) 66159346 Fax:+98 (21) 66087895 Unit .9,No.138,Azadi,Shad mehr,Tehran-Iran www.pol-ir.com Events and Trends Iranian writer Mohammadreza A number of Iranian children’s Bairami’s historical novel “The books translated into Spanish are Dead of Green Garden” was cho- slated to take part in to the 37th sen as one of the top ten titles in Montevideo International Book Moscow Book Fair 2014. Fair in Uruguay. “The Dead of Green Garden”, written by Moham- Some 44 Persian children’s books have been selected madreza Bairami and translated into Russian by Al- by an Iranian Institute, El Faro Children and Young exander Androshkin, was chosen as one of the top Adults Group to participate in the event. ten titles of this fair. The books have been translated into Spanish by El The novel, which is set in Tabriz, chronicles inci- Faro in collaboration with Iran’s Institute for the In- dents during the Azerbaijan People’s Government, a tellectual Development of Children and Young short-lived Soviet puppet government in northern Adults (IIDCYA). Iran from November 1945 to November 1946, from Divergent Iranian children books have attended the viewpoint of a reporter named Balash and his son many International exhibitions so far. Amir-Hossein. The 2014 edition of Montevideo International Book Fair is scheduled to be held in Uruguay from Octo- "7 centuries with Persian Litera- ber 1 to 12. ture" published in Azerbaijan The Coach’, a book written by Iranian writer Farideh Khalatba- ri, has been registered as one of According to the public relations office of the Islam- the five top books on the list of ic Culture and Relations Organization (ICRO), the International Youth Library book titled “7 centuries with Persian literature (IYL). "written by Professor Mehdi Kazemov, head of the history and literature department of Azerbaijan Na- Each year the IYL, in Munich, Germany, selects tional Academy of Sciences published in Baku with newly published books from across the world that the circulations of 200 copies. they consider to be especially noteworthy. This list of books is compiled into the annual White Ravens Sohrab Sepehri Poems published in Catalogue, which is introduced each year at the Bo- Italy logna (Italy) Children's Book Fair. “Finally five top books are selected. This is the first time that a book from Iran has made its way to the top five works,” the writer noted. A selection of works by Sohrab Sepehri (1928- 1980) has been published in a book in Italian lan- Iranian book 'If Snowmen guage. The collection was translated by Nahid No- Don’t Melt' written for children rouzi, an Iranian Ph.D. student of classical philology by the eminent author Seyyed and Italian studies at the University of Bologna. Ali Shojaei has been published "Sino al fiore del nulla" contains 99 poems by in France. Sepehri with the original texts in Persian language. The book tells the story of a big snowman built by village children. However, the snowman, rather than being grateful to the villagers for creating him, he instead demands guards and ice cubes since he doesn’t want to melt, and this creates problems for the people, according to Press TV. Shojaei’s latest narrative creation was published in a collection titled 'The Best Stories of Continents'. 2 Iranian Book News Fiction (Novel) Coolness of the Daybreak of Dawn By:Nahid Tabatabai Sample English text is available. Khojaste Publication,2004.Page.112,Size.14*21,ISBN 9446233964 This book is a description of the intrinsically evil but into trouble by short period that a war-stricken girl negligence or necessity. Sometimes, serves time in the women’s prison. the get inequality of punishment rel- In jail, she encounters various char- ative to crime is criticized. Composi- Born in 1958.She is a acters who have been arrested for tion and personality development prominent novelist in Irani- social misdemeanors like narcotics, serves the purpose of proving there an contemporary literature prostitution, theft, etc. Finally, she is always a place for hope and liveli- and great publishers have makes friends with one of them and hood and life goes on after all. published 10 novels by her they pledge to follow a normal life ever since. Her works have when they get out of the jail. The been noticed by overseas book introduces characters who ( especially European) have been jailed either guilty or in- publishers for their extra- nocent, and studies life behind the regional social themes. bars with regard to the circumstanc- es of the time and the majority of crimes get attributable to those cir- cumstances. People are not The Man on Perpetual Exile By:Nader Ibrahimi Sample English text is available. Roozbehan Publication,2010.7th,Page.280,Size 14*21,ISBN 9789648175028 The only child of governor of Shi- thus causing astonishment and pro- raz, Mohammad, was born when his tests of the sheiks and traditional parents were too old. He had a high learned men. Nad- IQ. He was intelligent and smart. He “The man on perpetual exile” is an e r was eager to be trained as an elo- anecdote based on the true story of Ibrahimi (1936 – 2008) quent speaker and preacher and to Mulla Sadra’s life, beautifully nar- Iranian writer, translator, screenwriter and actor. learn theology. As a reformer he rated by Nader Ibrahim, the talented Ibrahimi was a well known opposed the existing ruling party’s Iranian writer. contemporary novelist. schools of thoughts and intended to Actually, it is a historic anecdote of Ibrahim used to be ap- modify it. He found his way to the the Safavid’s era in Iran. Diversified plauded in most of the in- ternational award distribu- sessions of great thinkers, teachers orders and dialogues are used to ex- tion events. and the sage in the field of sciences plain images and to portray them of his own era in which he used to aimed at making the story more tan- raise sophisticated questions while gible. suggesting new ideas and solutions, Iranian Book News 3 Fiction (novel) Wicked Saints By:Amireza Pourhelm Sample English text is available. Unpublished, written in 2014,Page 123 ‘Wicked Saints’ is the first book wickedness caused the appearance written about the hideously shocking wicked criminals under the flag of scenes and events of the Iraq and Islam and overrunning of them in Syria war. some parts of Syria and Iraq. As The writer tried to express the sto- the story goes on, the writer de- Amirreza Pourhelm ry of Islamic state terrorist from picts the life of Abubakr Al He is among the writers dawn to the massacre and sacking of Baqdadi and other wicked terror- Iraq and Syria cities and villages who has already written ists and he describes how they several books like .‘Eagles within the form a wondering story. occupied the cities and how igno- Shadow’ which was pub- The story of this book began as a miniously they behaved and treat- lished in 2007, predicted rebellious warier who committed the electoral agitations un- ed the people of those occupied terrible crimes thousands of years der the title ‘the Green Up- cities. They invaded Syria by pre- raising’ of 2011 in Iran. ago in Syrian deserts was descend- tending to be revolutionist while ing from the heaven to the same spot they intended to topple the gov- of his crimes by the goddess of ernment and to establish a univer- chastise. The criminal’s flames of sal Islamic state. The Deceased of the Green Garden By: Mohammadreza Bayrami Sample English text is available. Soore Mehr Publication,2014,Size,22*14,page.384,ISBN 9789645069399 This novel is the story of a man pass the Jolfa Bridge and run away killed and dismembered in civil war into the USSR. Ballash reaches the whose ghost meets his son 15 years border with difficulty but then he after the incident. The story takes realizes the treachery of chiefs, so shape through this confrontation. prefers death to leaving the country, The father - Ballash- was an ordi- especially since he witnessed the Born in 1958.Bayrami has nary street vendor with poetic skills. innocence of a person. written more or less 40 When he takes his poems to Ballash tries to save the life of Mi- novels, story collections Dozgon, the editor of Azerbaijan ane bank manager who is an inno- and novelettes for children, Newspaper, Dozgon gets impressed cent person, but when he arrives, the teenagers and adults. He by Ballash’s voice and invites him man has been lynched and hanged has always been a main- to the newspaper and radio and thus, from a traffic light pole in the middle stream Iranian figure and Ballash becomes a journalist. He of a crossroad and any action seems has won tens of national awards - including IRI witnesses defeat of democrat forces futile. Then he takes refuge to his Year Book- and two inter- by government and chasing and friend’s place in Ardebil. Plain national awards. slaughtering of the cult members Clothes men are chasing the defeated afterwards.