Dr. Simin Daneshvar, the creator of Suvashun, passed away in Tehran on March 8, 2012. After a period of illness, Daneshvar - an Ianianacademic, novelist, fiction writer and translator died at the age of 90, ISNA reported. Simin Daneshvar was born in 1921 in Shiraz. She is the first Iranian woman who professionally wrote the story in the Persian ...

IBNA:The ceremony was held on Sunday March 09 2014 in the presence of senior cultural figures like Seyyed Abbas Salehi, Culture Deputy Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Daneshvar's god-daughter, and a number of prominent Iranian writers and literati. The characters formed by Daneshvar in her works enjoyed a good political and social understanding ...

The 25th Tehran International Book Fair which was kicked off on Tuesday (May 2) in presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and cultural officials opens to the public today. Over 2,400 Iranian publishers and 1600 publishers from 77 countries are offering their products at the fair this year, Tehran times reported on Tuesday. Organizers of the ...