NIMĀ YUŠIJ, pen name of Moḥammad-ʿAli Nuri Esfandiāri (b. Yuš, in the Nur district of Māzandarān, 21 Ābān 1276/11 November…

BEHBAHANI, SIMIN iv. Selected Bibliography i. Publications. i(a). Poetry. 1950 Setār-e šekasta (The broken sitar), Tehran. 1956 Jā-ye pā (Footprints),…

BEHBAHANI, SIMIN iii. Prose Although she is more noted for her poems, Behbahani has also written extensively in prose, and…

NADERPOUR, NADER (Nāder Nāderpur, b. Tehran, 16 Ḵordād 1308 Š./6 June 1929; d. Los Angeles, 29 Bahman 1378 Š./18 February…

SAMFONI-e MORDAGĀN (Tehran, 1989, translated by Lotfali Khonji, as Symphony of the Dead, Wiltshire, UK, 2007), the first and most…

ṬUBĀ VA MAʿNĀ-YE ŠAB (1987, tr. Kamran Talattof and Havva Houshmand as Touba and the Meaning of Night, New York),…

FICTION ii(d). THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY SHORT STORY As an independent genre, rather than as a novel in miniature, the post-revolutionary short…

FICTION ii(e). POST-REVOLUTIONARY FICTION ABROAD Not only were the novel and short story imported genres, it should be noted that…

FICTION ii(f). BY PERSIANS IN NON-PERSIAN LANGUAGES Persian fiction is not limited to works written in the Persian language, or…

FICTION ii(b). THE NOVEL Literary history does not usually follow the smooth path of an evolutionary process. Some writers limit…

SA’EDI, Gholam-Hosayn (غلامحسین ساعدی, Ḡolām-Ḥosayn Sāʿedi, b. Tabriz, 13 Dey 1314 Š./5 January 1936; d. Paris, 2 Āḏar 1364 Š./23…