Stories from young authors in a book

According to a report by the Iran Book News Agency (IBNA), Mohammad Reza Safdari, a prominent contemporary writer, has recently compiled and published a collection of stories by his students from writing workshops, titled “Hamchenan Dastan” (Still Story).

These stories include “The Drum Sound Was Coming” written by Mitra Gilbert, “Hachel” by Peiman Ardalani, “Shirt and Table” by Shayan Mortazavi, “Midway” by Pouya Ehasaei, “Nurse” by Tara Fatehi and Sara Faeli, “A Small Mistake” by Amir Mohammad Khalili, “After Darkness Comes” by Niloufar Insan, “Paro” by Hossein Mansouri, “From Solitude with Woodlice” by Gonja Mousavi, “Maya Cinema” by Hadiyeh Kazerouni, “Dead Play” by Bahareh Bayat, “Summer Scar” by Maryam Amiri, “Simple World” by Solmaz Ashtari, “After Super, Before Telephone Booth Alley” by Ali Gharghi, “Canaan” by Maryam Rouintan, “Shiraz, Shin is Scattered in the Name of Women Mothers of the World” by Anis Saadat, and “Servant” by Sedigheh Niroo.

In the book’s introduction, Safdari emphasized: “Undoubtedly, the young authors who have a story in this collection will write better than us, and the day is not far when I will see stories from them comparable to ‘The Lame’ and ‘The Monkey Whose Master Died’ or ‘The Innocent II’ and ‘Mr. Author Is New’ or ‘Crow’ by Bahram Heidari and ‘What You See Tomorrow and Day After Tomorrow and The Day After That’ written by Reza Daneshvar. Although I tell my young friends and have told them, if one story remains from each of us, what a beautiful garden we will have!”

Nazar Publication has offered the book “Hamchenan Dastan” in 200 pages for 240,000 tomans.