The collection Here is Iran! presents Persian poetry in German-speaking countries a diverse view of the work of Iranian…
The poems of the Iranian poet Vahe Armen are immensely powerful. In his pictures, the sensually captured and the intellectual merge with each other and…
They are stories that play on borders, borders between seasons and times of life, between country and city life, the everyday and the unreal, the present and…
In his work Symphony of the Dead, first published in 1989, Abbas Maroufi tells the story of a family in southwest Iran in the middle…
“It all ended with the blow of the sharp iron that fell on his head. The dreams were over. There was no hope left.…
The Bremen poet Bernd Jaeger writes with a distancing (self-) irony about his everyday thoughts and prayers, with which he succeeds…
With vivid imagery and an engaging use of Arabic meter and rhyme, the poems in this book explore nature, the…
Amir Shaheen When a German native speaker has an Arabic name, it raises legitimate questions in everyday life. If someone like…
by Maryam Djahani translated from Persian by Isabel Stümpel Shohre, in her early thirties, divorced, works as a taxi driver in Kermanshah - her dream job.…
An official wants to check whether a person exists - and has forms with fatal consequences in his luggage. A widower receives a visit from…
From the mystery of near and far. Gunther Gerlach's new volume of poetry is a poetic journey through fleeting symbols and biographical traces,…
In this novel, Amir Hassan Cheheltan tells a story about the life of Keramat. He's handsome, brave and brutal.…
