TEHRAN – Narges Qandilzadeh has won the Abolhassan Najafi Award for the Persian translation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s novel, “Gate of the Sun”.

A jury comprising Zia Movahed, Mahasti Bahreini, Abdollah Kowsari, Hossein Masumi Hamedani, Musa Asvar, Omid Tabibzadeh and Abtin Golkar selected the winner of the sixth edition of the Abolhassan

Mahbube Hajiannejad was born in 1984 in Damghan city. She studied English language translation and is now engaged in both writing and translating. 

She has started writing since her childhood and has won more than ten first, second, third or selected places in the field of fiction in various festivals.

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TEHRAN – Accomplished Iranian ney player Hassan Nahid died at his home as a result of complications related to old age. He was 79.

Nahid began performing the ney, a kind of flute made of reed that is often used in traditional Iranian music, from childhood when he was 10.

He developed his professional skills in courses on Iranian music with masters

TEHRAN – A collection of selected handmade artworks made by Iranian artisans and craftspeople is currently on show at the 7th edition of the Fajr handicrafts festival, which officially opened to the public on Wednesday at the National Museum of Iran in downtown Tehran.

The opening ceremony was attended by Maryam Jalali and Ali-Asghar Shalbafian,