The editor of the Minor Literature Award is pleased to announce the final results of the “Sisyphus Online Festival, and its accompanying theme KOLBARs*: Short-Short Story section: Mohsen Akbari Mohammad Taher HassanAghaee Hamid Soleimani Razan Poetry section: Pakzad Ejraee Mostafa Tofighi Mahdis Mallah Design section: Alireza Pahrizkari …
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TEHRAN TIMES: “This Street Has No Rumble Strip” by Maryam Jahani and “Booklessness” by Mohammadreza Sharafi-Khabushan have shared the best novel prize of the 10th Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards. The winners were honored during a ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on January 6, attended by Minister of Culture and …
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Two influential, if woefully under-read, American classics — George S. Schuyler’s “Black No More” (1931) and Nella Larsen’s “Passing” (1929) — have been reissued in handsome new editions in time for Black History Month. This is excellent news for readers, but I imagine the authors, both famously ambivalent about causes …
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