Iran under 30; edited by Giacomo Longhi.

From 26 September in bookstores through Polidoro Editore Iran under 30, an anthology of young Iranian writers, an unexpected and vivid insight into Iran told by the new generations edited by Giacomo Longhi and with a preface by Ginevra Lamberti. Translations from Persian by Melissa Fedi and Federica Ponzo.
The meeting between an aspiring writer and an elderly writer, a boy who does everything on public transport to provoke others, the pandemic told by a little girl from the Caspian countryside or by a teacher who hides away to teach remotely in the back room of a hookah bar, a love story (or manipulation) between Tehran and Japan, a mysterious treasure and a pact between friends... Chosen by two of the greatest contemporary Iranian authors, Mahsa Mohebali and Mohammad Tolouei, the stories of Iran Under 30 takes the reader to the heart of Iran's literary laboratory, with references both to the ancient and very rich Persian culture and to the modernism of the American short story, offering through the voices of the new generations a multifaceted, and perhaps unexpected, portrait of a country often told through contrasts.
Authors: Mohaddeseh Javadi, Yasin Kiyani, Fatemeh Jeyafzam, Saman Sadiqzadeh, Zahra Godarzi, Mostafa Amiri, Ghazal Mohammadi, Fatemeh Piravi Vanak, Sahand Ebrahimi, Matineh Iqaiy, Amir Mohammad Mohaddesi, Sepideh Khaksar.

Giacomo Longhi

he is a translator from Persian and Arabic. A doctoral student in Iranian studies at La Sapienza University of Rome, he also studied in Venice, Aleppo and Mashhad. His are the Italian versions of some classics of twentieth-century Persian literature, such as Patient Stone by Sadeq Chubak (Ponte33/Ismeo 2022) and Symphony of the Dead by Abbas Maroufi (Brioschi 2023), as well as the translations of numerous contemporary authors including Omani Jokha Alharthi and Iranians Mahsa Mohebali, Mohammad Tolouei, Mostafa Ensafi, Mehdi Asadzadeh. On the cover a photo of Pietro Masturzo, winner of the 2010 World Press Photo Picture of the Year for his work in Iran.

240 PAGES, EURO 16