Art news in brief

Shams Ensemble to give concert in Paris 

TEHRAN – Shams Ensemble led by Iranian tanbur virtuoso Keikhosro Purnazeri will perform a concert at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris on April 13.  

 

The ensemble is composed of vocalist Sohrab Purnazeri, tar virtuoso Tahmures Purnazeri, daf player Hossein Rezainia and tanbur player Khorshid Dadbeh.

 

 

Persian version of “Thank You for This Moment” republished

TEHRAN – A Persian version of “Thank You for This Moment”, the controversial book of Valérie Trierweiler, the former partner of French President François Hollande, has recently been republished four months after the release of its first edition. 

 

The book, which originally came out in September 2014, details her relationship with Hollande and their breakup.

 

It was rendered into Persian by Abolfazl Allahdadi, who previously translated Mahtab Bolouki’s “Jean Genet et l’architecture du vide”.

 

The Persian version was published by the Tehran-based publishing house Behnegar.

 

 

Georges Simenon’s “The Misty Harbor” hits Iranian bookstores

TEHRAN -- A Persian translation of “The Misty Harbor” by the 20th-century Belgian author Georges Simenon has been published by Jahan Publications.  

 

The book translated into Persian by Abbas Agahi details the story of a distressed man who is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. 

 

The answers lead Inspector Maigret, the novel’s leading character, to a small harbor town, whose quiet citizens conceal poisonous malice.

 

 

Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Me and You” appears in Persian

TEHRAN – Best-selling Italian author Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Me and You” has recently been published in Persian.

 

In “Me and You”, Ammaniti eschews the violence and black humor of his recent books and recovers the subtlety and restraint he brought to his best-known novel, “I’m Not Scared”.

 

Translated from Italian into Persian by Foruq Haratian, the book was published by Dastan in Tehran. 

 

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