The Tehran Times reports that War Road author not surprised over lucrative Jalal award, as Mansur Anvari (منصور انوری) has taken "Iran's most lucrative award" (winning: "110 Bahar Azadi gold coins worth over $66,000") for the first five volumes of what is projected to be a 20-volume work (he's currently up to volume eight), The War Road (جاده جنگ).
The win doesn't come as a major surprise, as this looks to be the Iranian 'book of the year' -- recall that it took the "fiction section" prize of the Golden Pen Awards (out of "804 fictional novels" submitted) this summer, see the Tehran Times report.
But, yeah, don't expect US publication anytime soon .....
(But note that two works by Jalal Al-e Ahmad are under review at the complete review: By the Pen and The School Principal.)
The win doesn't come as a major surprise, as this looks to be the Iranian 'book of the year' -- recall that it took the "fiction section" prize of the Golden Pen Awards (out of "804 fictional novels" submitted) this summer, see the Tehran Times report.
But, yeah, don't expect US publication anytime soon .....
(But note that two works by Jalal Al-e Ahmad are under review at the complete review: By the Pen and The School Principal.)