Short stories by Mahmud Dowlatabadi republished

TEHRAN,Nov.10(MNA) – Ten short stories written by the celebrated Iranian author Mahmud Dowlatabadi have recently been republished in a collection named “The Sepanj Report Card” years after the first editions. The Negah Company has published the collection, which includes “The Trip”, “Baluch Meeting”, “Bashbiro”, “Gavareban”, “Finials and Shadows”, “From the Curve of Destiny”, “Biabani and Leave”, “Aqil, Aqil”, “The Legend of Baba Sobhan” and “Misery and Mirror”. The stories were written from 1962 to 1975 during the early years of Dowlatabadi’s career. Born in 1940, Dowlatabadi is considered as the most prominent Iranian novelist of the 1980s. Self-educated and forced to work from childhood, he spent part of his younger adult years as a stage actor in Tehran. Some of his works including “The Colonel” and “Missing Soluch” have been translated into several languages.