TEHRAN -- Mir Jalaleddin Kazzazi has written a novel based on the life story of Ferdowsi, the composer of the Persian epic masterpiece the Shahnameh, and it is now available in bookstores.
The novel, entitled “The Child of Iran”, was recently published by Moin, he told the Persian service of ISNA on Thursday.
Kazzazi said that he used three sources to write the novel.
“The Shahnameh is one of the sources, and I used what Ferdowsi accounts of his life story in the book,” he added.
He also used other Persian classical writers’ works such as “Four Discourses” (Chahar Maqala) by Nizami-i Aruzi-i Samarqandi.
In addition, Kazzazi utilized his imagination to write about the lost parts of Ferdowsi’s life story.
“I used a literary artistic style similar to what has been used in classical European plays to write the book,” Kazzazi stated.
Kazzazi previously translated the French classic “Lancelot, le Chevalier de la Charrette” (Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart) and “The Metamorphoses” by the Roman poet Ovid into Persian.
He was honored at the Aqabozorg Awards ceremony in March 2012 for his work entitled “The Letter of the Ancients: Writing the Shahnameh”.
The awards are named after Professor Hossein Aqabozorg, one of the founding fathers of the Ferdowsi Foundation, who died on March 7, 2011.
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