The Pol Literary and Translation Agency, a Tehran-based institution that translates Iranian books and presents Persian language publications around the world, entered into negotiations with Foliant at the 3rd Eurasian Book Fair in Astana, Kazakhstan in April.
The final negotiations are currently taking place between Iranian publishers and Foliant, Pol director Majid Jafari-Aqdam said in a press release on Sunday.
Mehdi Azar Yazdi’s series “Good Stories for Good Children” which won a UNESCO prize in 1966 and was selected as Iran’s best book of the year in 1967, is among the books.
The collection also includes “Canned Monster” by Mehdi Rajabi, “Little Stories for Little Children” by Shokuh Qasemnia, “Shahnameh Tales” by Atusa Salehi and “Parsua Plain” by Maryam Azizi
Also included are “Orange Book” by Fariba Kalhor, “A Banana that Smiled” by Hamidreza Shahabadi, “I was a Deer” by Ahmad Akbarpur, “Gili Gili” by Susan Taqdis, “Would You Like to Be…” and “Children’s Books, Games, Lives” by Esmaeil Jamali.
Source: Tehran Times