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16 May 2012 11:02 |
| Carlos Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist and a leading figure in Latin America's 20th century literary boom of the 1960s and 70s, has died in hospital in Mexico City. He was 83 and reportedly suffered a sudden internal haemorrhage. |
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15 May 2012 14:30 |
| Talking about the weak points of Iranian illustration, Mohammed Ali Baniasadi, Iranian nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 2012, said:" The new generation of the Iranian illustrators is influenced by the west and extra attention is paid to international awards." |
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15 May 2012 13:18 |
| Nobel-prize winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the Sonning Prize, Denmark's biggest cultural award, the University of Copenhagen said here Monday. |
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14 May 2012 14:04 |
| Chuck Davis won two BC Book Prizes Saturday night for his enormous book of Vancouver history, which was finished after his death in 2010. |
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14 May 2012 13:44 |
| Tehran’s Milad Tower will hold a commemoration for the noted poet Ferdowsi on Tuesday, May 15. Moreover next week, Bushehr will pay tribute to the poet as well. |
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13 May 2012 16:28 |
| Proceeds from the sequel to Mario Puzo's novel "The Godfather" published this week will be put in escrow while Paramount Pictures and the late novelist's estate pursue litigation over the publishing rights. |
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12 May 2012 11:51 |
| Reading a page of a book out of thousands and millions of pages is, for us, like looking through a window on brighter side of the world that is constantly calling us, tempting us to set on a journey with the frigate of a book for more and more adventures... |
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10 May 2012 13:41 |
| In the unveiling ceremony of "the Effects of Iran Today's Political Literature" Mohammad Reza Sarshar said: during the past few years, Revolution Story festival has been held that resulted in writing stories which are not so astonishing, but are good; and in the long time, after hundreds stories are written in this field, we will witness a good and lasting book. |
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9 May 2012 13:20 |
| Spanish and Arabic-language writers are coming together from today until Friday May 11, as part of the Rabat Literature Week, which for the first time is being organised by the Cervantes Institute, for the promotion of Spanish language and culture in Arab and African countries. |
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8 May 2012 13:25 |
| Managing director of Iranian Fiction Foundation Mohammad Hassani said that the foundation's international section has been established and it will render a selection of Persian contemporary literature into other languages. |
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7 May 2012 17:01 |
| The press conference of honoring the laureates of Book of the Year Award was held Sunday evening, May 6, in the 25th Tehran International Book Fair's stall of Soureh Mehr publication. The director of Hozeh Honari(Art bureau) said that the books of Soureh Mehr attend different national festivals and I think the Book of the Year Award is the most significant one." |
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7 May 2012 11:30 |
| Javad Mohaghegh, poet, believes that defining resistance literature in more general terms allows the concept to be employed in almost all grievances against the mankind. |
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5 May 2012 15:33 |
| A manuscript draft for classic children's book "The Little Prince," by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is presented by auction house Art Curial in Paris, May 3, 2012. |
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2 May 2012 16:57 |
| Georges Bataille's “La structure psychologique du fascisme”, Gilles Deleuze's "Les noms de l’histoire et pas le nom du père" as well as "Film as philosophy" are being presented at the 25th Tehran International Book Fair. |
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2 May 2012 15:29 |
| Zahra Mohammadi, professor of Russian language and literature at the University of Tehran tends to translate a complete collection of poems, stories, and plays of Russian romanticist poet Alexander Pushkin to Persian. She is done with the first volume and the rest will be completed in three years. |
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2 May 2012 15:27 |
| Caine prize judges wade through 'a lot of uninspired prose' to list five stories that 'enlarge our concept of Africa' |
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2 May 2012 13:13 |
| "A Spanish Play", the most different work of French playwright Yasmina Reza, has been jointly rendered into Persian by Zahra Qorban-khanlou and Gholam-hussein Dowlat-abadi. The work is presented at the 25th Tehran International Book Fair by Afraz. |
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2 May 2012 12:20 |
| POET Laureate Carol Ann Duffy is one of 20 writers shortlisted for Scotland's largest literary prize. |
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1 May 2012 16:36 |
| "The Clean House" a play by Sarah Ruhl, American playwright, has been released in Iran by Afraz. The work was rendered into Persian by Maziar Moaveni. |
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1 May 2012 11:18 |
| Reading a page of a book out of thousands and millions of pages is, for us, like looking through a window on brighter side of the world that is constantly calling us, tempting us to set on a journey with the frigate of a book for more and more adventures... |
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