"Diverse Tales of Paris" Hits Bookstores

"Diverse Tales of Paris," a new volume in the O. Henry Prize short story anthology series, translated by Lida Tarzi, has been released by Nisetan Publishing.

According to Iran's Ambassador Arjan (Ambassador Arjan), this book, which was published in the United States in 2023, like other volumes of this series, has included the best short stories of the year and made them available to literature lovers, especially short stories.

The history of A.Henri short story award dates back to 1919. Ten years after A.Henri's death, his friends and lovers established this award to honor A.Henri's memory with a memorial that, according to them, both strengthens the art of short story writing and motivates young writers.

The winners of the 2023 collection clearly show the continued enthusiasm of the short story format to continue. According to Lauren Graff, editor of this volume of the A. Henry Award-winning short story collection, a great story can dispel irrational hatreds, and this is one of the greatest gifts of narrative.

The Mad Men of Paris book contains 11 short stories by authors from four corners of the world.

The story "Office Hours" written by Ling Ma is a readable story that mysteriously blurs the boundaries between fantasy and reality. A young woman named Marie, who is a university professor, finds a secret door in her office, which was the office of her deceased mentor before her, which opens to a different and very strange place.

The story "Mountain of Man" written by Catherine Lacey is also the narrator of a rare and incredible event in our noisy and chaotic world. In the state of Kansas, a mountain suddenly appears whose walls are not made of stone and soil but of a large number of people, all of them men. What is interesting in this symbolic story is the speculations and interpretations of those who face this strange phenomenon.

The story "The Exorcism of Haji Hotak" written by Jamil Jan Kochaei has used the life of immigrants as the basis of his work. An old Afghan man who immigrated to the United States many years ago is still on the fence about participating in political activities, and every moment of his life and his large family are being monitored by an anonymous and invisible spy.

But without a doubt, one of the most interesting stories in this volume is the story of "Mad Men of Paris" written by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon; A Mexican researcher chooses the Linguistics Laboratory of the Informatics Dictionary in Paris to complete his internship, but unfortunately, he arrives in this city on November 23, 2015, only ten days after the Bataclan massacre; The days when the people of Paris wrapped their grief in an invisible shawl and their annoying silence was a handkerchief like the air itself, which was wrapped around the necks of residents and immigrants alike. Bari, our depressed researcher, fed up with the cold and heavy silence, meets a Romanian man in the subway and unwittingly discovers historical and political secrets.

The story of "Mother", written by Jacob M. Hango, is the story of a young woman in an African tribe who violates traditional beliefs and the patriarchal system of the village and speaks about new things for the first time, and it is unknown what the outcome of such a thing will be; But Tombi, the hero of our story, miraculously survives the punishment of the white-beards and fanatics of the village.

The story of "The Locksmith" written by Gary Wolfe Lajoie, however, tells about the condition of those who are humble and humble in the eyes of people, but behind their strange appearance, they have a different world; Locksmiths are silent and evasive people who live in isolation, open closed doors to their owners as a joke. In his solitude, he thinks about deep issues, issues that the scientists of the world are helpless to solve.

The book Mad Men of Paris is not devoid of humor, and the story "The Bride" written by Kei Ming Chang is the story of a middle-aged woman who, even though she has been married for many years, still has problems with her abusive mother-in-law.

"Mad Men of Paris", the title of a new volume of short stories selected by the O. Henry Award, translated by Lida Tarzi, entered the book market by Nistan publishing house.

On the occasion of International White Cane Day, Arsbaran Cultural Center organizes a special program "Poetry and Music Night of the Blind" with the presence of a group of poets, artists and people of culture and art.

The book "Artificial Intelligence and the Bomb: Strategy and Nuclear Risk in the Digital Age" written by James Johnson and translated by Mohammad Amin Pourhsingogli was published in Jahan Kitab.

Gholamreza Awani said: The translation of Iranian, Indian and Greek astronomical works into Arabic had an important role in the formation and expansion of astronomy in Islamic civilization. The translation of the works related to Iranian and Indian zijs as well as Ptolemy's book of al-Magisti provided the basis for the familiarization of Muslim scholars with the previous achievements.

Professor Perigarina has received numerous international awards and honors from Pakistan, India and Iran, among them the gold medal for the best Persian language teacher from the Iranian government before the Islamic Revolution and the World Book of the Year Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the translation of the Masnavi in 2009.

The CEO of Iran Book and Literature House, in the meeting of the academic staff of the 19th Jalal Al-Ahmad Literary Award, said about the necessity of maintaining the credibility of this award: One of the ways to maintain the credibility of the brand of this award is that if the jury does not see a worthy work in one of the groups, they will not insist on introducing the selected work.

Khuzestan- No. 32 of the literary quarterly "Siya Mashakh" published the case of half a century of literary efforts of Adnan Gharifi.

Khuzestan - The book "Ramhormoz in the Qajar period", by Maysam Kazemi Far, has been decorated with artistic ornaments by Tarikh Andish Publications.

According to Rahmati: "Man has always been associated with forgetfulness due to his existential structure, and we see an allegorical example of this in Ibn Sina's "Essay on Al-Tair", how the captive chickens forgot their homeland and their eternal position and considered captivity as the main rule of life."

On the occasion of the Standard Day, Mohammad Ali Mirbagheri, a writer and translator, explained the necessity of forming a mechanism for the production of standard books.

Ilam - Director General of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Ilam Province announced that 135 books of the 8th edition of the Book of the Year Award of the province have been sent to Iran Book and Literature House for judging and evaluation.

Bushehr - Director General of Bushehr Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents, referring to holding a special program "Meeting the Poet; "Meeting the Sea" with the presence of Asadullah Shabani, a poet and writer in Bushehr on the occasion of National Children's Week, emphasized: Asadullah Shabani has played a prominent role in the fertility of the children's imagination of this land by creating pleasant works and children's songs.

Fath published "The Life of Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Taleghani" written by Azadeh Jahan Ahmadi.

Zanjan - The 4th day of the 11th Zanjan Book Fair ended with the welcome of the people and the voice of "Ashiqlar" as Khorramdare became the host of cultural lovers and the campaign of the book offering created a wave of sympathy in the prison pavilion.

This book is a structural and thematic analysis of the award-winning short films in the Tehran Short Film Festival.

Alireza Kazemi said: In education, we have a duty to introduce the culture, civilization, honors and outstanding personalities of our country to children and raise a generation with national and religious identity. We are the inheritors of elders and personalities who have played a role in the history of this land.

The commemoration of the 100th birthday of "Reza Seyed Hosseini", the late translator, editor, and culture writer, was held in collaboration with Soroush Publications, on Tuesday evening (October 21, 1405) at the Center of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia.

Ahmad Vathouq Ahmadi, Ali Akbar Saneti, Javad Mojabi, Abbas Aref, Ali Dehbashi and Mohammad Reza Ateshzad in a picture from the distant years. This photo is one of the remaining frames from the days when Javad Mojabi stood among his friends and contemporaries; A writer and poet who spent a large part of his life with literature, art and conversation with people of culture. Today, on Javad Mojabi's birthday, we publish this picture in his absence; The frame remains old and its people continue in the memory of Iranian culture and literature.

Razavi Khorasan- The 310th scientific and cultural Tuesday program of Astan Quds Razavi was held in the Razavi library, with the focus of unveiling the manuscript of Divan Hafez donated by the martyred leader.

Fars - the book "Lari Coins; From the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean" compiled, compiled and translated by Fatemeh Qomlaghi, was unveiled in the Larestan Pavilion at Shiraz Expo 2026.

Kermanshah - Kermanshah has been the subject of many researches and writings over the years, and part of the history, culture, society and identity of this land has been recorded in books and written sources. However, what has been collected and researched so far is not the end of the way to know Kermanshah. Among the sources collected for researchers, there are still parts of the history and identity of this province that need to be studied, recorded and documented; A problem that highlights the need to pay attention again to the assets and gaps of the sources of Kermanshah history.

Fatemeh Sadat Mirrezi said: When a historian starts the history of Islam from creation, brings it to his own time through the history of prophets and previous nations, and then places it on the horizon of the end of time, he is actually not just reporting the past; Rather, it also interprets its present time in a larger historical whole.

The history of the first car with a license plate in the country goes back to 1305, when the first cars arrived in Iran. At that time, a set of regulations including 32 clauses for the numbering of cars was compiled, although these rules were finalized three years after the entry of cars, i.e. in 1308. According to these regulations, cars had to install five separate license plates.

Khorasan Razavi - The 19th of October 1405 is the 87th anniversary of the birth of the poet, researcher and scholar of Iranian literature and citizen of Neyshabur, "Mohammedreza Shafiei Kodkani". The following picture shows the graduation certificate of this enduring figure of Iranian literature from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, which was issued in June 1344, with a score of 19 in the field of Persian language and literature. A document from the scholarly days of a man whose name still shines in the sphere of poetry and literary research in Iran and the world.

Amiri Tehrani said: The ancient works and historical documents cited by the speakers are a reflection of the spirit of Iranian culture and thought, which has been manifested in the civilizational background of this land, including the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea. A culture and thought that has continued since ancient Iran and has guaranteed the continuity of the Iranian world.

What is the story? A false and colorful story that historians have added to history in order to attract a general audience, or the story behind a hidden and unofficial curtain of historical events that has been removed from historical books by censorship or censorship?

Hamedan- Hamedan province, with an ancient background in the history and civilization of Iran, these days hosts a comprehensive narrative of its historical and cultural identity in the form of an encyclopedia of the province's culture, civilization and celebrities; A collection that collects hundreds of research works in the fields of history, geography, celebrities, rituals, language and art, tries to record the heritage of this land and pass it on to future generations.

Farhad Hemmati wrote: In addition to advancing the Nazi goals in the university, Heidegger also controlled the professors and students and even spied on the professors and gave secret reports. Like the case of Edward Baumgarten, who followed John Dewey's pragmatism in philosophy, which caused him to be expelled from the university.

Khuzestan- The book "Mozban Khan Sukund", a historical account of the participation of the Sukund family in some political movements at the end of the Qajar period until the years of the Pahlavi period, has been published by Gholam Ali Izadi, a writer from Khuzestan.