By comparison, 640 Turkish literary works were indexed during the same period. Only about 200 are translations of modern Arab children’s or adult literature.
According to my research using the bibliographic databases of Iran’s National Library, in the past 10 years (2010-20), more than 35,000 works of fiction have been published or republished in Iran. Arab literature has largely been neglected in the Iranian literary translation market. It is curious how a country that brags about caring for its neighbors (and simultaneously boasts about asserting its power) has so little interest in those same neighbors’ state of mind and modes of imagination. Unfortunately, Blasim and many other distinguished Arab writers are unknown to the majority of Iranian readers and their works are not available in Persian. Blasim dedicated his story “TO THE DEAD OF THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR (1980-1988).” However, neither the book, nor this short story has ever been translated into Persian. Many Iranian readers would certainly identify with the story given the profound similarities with their own lived experience of the war. This is one of my favorite stories by the renowned Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim, from his collection of short stories, The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq.
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