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Fereshteh Sari
Poet, writer & Translator
Iran
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Born in 1956, Tehran
BS in Computer Science, Tehran University
BA in Russian Language and Literature, Tehran University
Prizes:
1998, Lillian Hellmann-Dashiell Hammett from Human Rights Watch
1999, One year Scholarship from International Parliament of Writers
2004, Parvin Etesami Prize for "Days and Letters", collection of poems
Books: Poems
Echo of Silence
Collection of Modern Poems/First edition 1987/Second edition 1989/Cheshmeh Pub./ Persian Language/
Frames Without Portrait
Collection of Modern Poems/Cheshmeh Pub./1989/Persian Language/
The Figure in the Wind
Collection of Modern Poems/Gardoun Pub./1991/Persian Language/
Republic of Winter
Collection of Modern Poems/Cheshmeh Pub./1993/Persian Language/
Days and Letters
Collection of Modern Poems/Cheshmeh Pub./2002/Winner of Parvin Estesami Prize/Persian Language/
Books: Novels
Morvarid Khatoun
Sociably, destiny Novel/First Edition 1990/Second Edition 1998/Elm Pub./Persian Language/
Azure Island
Modern, subjective Novel/Gardoun Pub./1991/Persian Language/
Tomb of Lovers
Modern, technical, amorously Novel/First Edition Morqeh Amin Pub., 1995/Second Edition Elm Pub., 2000/Elm Pub./Persian Language/
Mitra
Modern, technical Novel/Elm Pub./1999/Persian Language/
The Aroma of Fennel
Modern, sociably, loving Novel/Elm Pub./2000/Persian Language/
Parissa
Modern, loving Novel/Qoqnous Pub./2004/Persian Language/
This novel is narrated in two parts. In the first part, a young couple and their children look everywhere to find a house. At last they rent a house-garden for living. It seems that this house has been deserted since some times ago. A woman, called Pari, is its gardener and housekeeper. The deep emotional connection between the children and Pari, besides the mother's curiosity in the depth of all the financial problems, takes the reader to the second part. Pari belongs to this new world, where time has no place and meaning in it. And now, the family lives in a garden house with a person, who has eternal memories and love.
This novel depicts life's cruelty and the love and affection, which could be part of life and yet is missing from it.
Books: Collection of Short Story
Portray of Donya
Collection of modern Short Stories/Ofoq Pub./2002/ Persian Language/
To Wither or to Blossom
Translated to English by M. Alexandrian
Everything started with this simple monologue:
"Is there anybody in this room
who can measure the dimension of my mind
and will know here!
exactly here!
beside the analytical geometry of my mind?
several times I have drawn
the stool with horizontal lines
under the word "Presence"!
No! the rule is no more a suitable device for
measurement
I repeat, "Is anybody here in this room
who knows, how much I dream
that I am alive still...?!
with this simple monologue
I have converted all the squares in mind
into cubes I am present here
and my solo tone has tired me...
If anybody is there in this room
please let him shine
over the word "Light"
I am content with an ordinary conversation even.
Is somebody in this room?!
No sound is coming
and morning breaks
on the word "Silence".
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