Reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan
A reading with Fariba Vafi and Amir Hassan Cheheltan, moderated by Jutta Himmelreich A cooperation between Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V. and the Düren Kultur Stadtbibliothek Registration: boell-haus@düren.de Admission is free! Faribā Vafī was born in 1962 in Tabriz, the capital of the East Azerbaijan province in northwest Iran. She currently lives in Tehran and is one of Iran's most popular contemporary authors. Iranian critics place her among the top 10 modern writers in the country. She was awarded the prestigious Huschang Golschiri Prize and the Yalda Prize, and in 2017 she received the Literature Prize for her work Tarlan. Amir Hassan Cheheltan, born in Tehran in 1956, studied electrical engineering in England, took part in the Iraq War and published novels and volumes of short stories in Tehran. His novel “Tehran, Revolutionary Street” was published in German for the first time in 2009, followed by “Tehran, Apocalypse” and “Tehran, City without Sky”. Most recently, C.H.Beck published his novels “The Calligrapher of Isfahan” (2015) and “The Circle of Literature Lovers” (2020), for which…
