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PoetryThe Zend-AvestaاوستاAnonymous · -1000The sacred book of the ancient Iranian religion, transmitted by word of mouth long before being written down.Literature
PoetryShahnameh: The Persian Book of KingsشاهنامهFerdowsi · 1010The kings and heroes of ancient Iran sung in a Persian almost free of Arabic words.Literature
PoetryThe Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamرباعیاتOmar Khayyam · 1100Quatrains of wine and doubt, attributed to a Persian scholar of the eleventh century.Literature
PoetryLayli and Majnunلیلی و مجنونNizami Ganjavi · 1188The Arab legend of Qays, the man mad with love, set in Persian verse in the twelfth century.Literature
PoetryThe Divan-i-Hafizدیوان حافظHafez · 1410The ghazals of a poet of Shiraz, in which love of a face and love of God cannot be told apart.Literature
Theatreسرگذشت اشرف‌خانMirza Aqa Tabrizi · 1908not translated into EnglishA provincial governor in Tehran, where every favour of the Qajar court has its price.Literature
Short storiesOnce Upon a Timeیکی بود یکی نبودMohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh · 1921Six satires of the country in the wake of the constitutional revolution, written the way people speak.Literature
PoetryافسانهNima Yushij · 1923not translated into EnglishA long dialogue poem, set at night, between a lover and the legend that has followed him since childhood.Literature
PoetryدیوانAref Qazvini · 1924not translated into EnglishThe songs of a revolution, made to be sung in assemblies and taken up by the street.Literature
Cinemaآبی و رابیOvanes Ohanian · 1931Two burlesque companions and a troupe of student actors, in the first feature film made in Iran.Cinema
Cinemaدختر لرArdeshir Irani · 1933Brigands, a captive and a government envoy, in a Persia that the film wants to show as changed.Cinema
CinemaبوالهوسEbrahim Moradi · 1934A village wedding caught up by the city, in one of the last silent films made in Iran.Cinema
Poetryدیوان پروین اعتصامیParvin E'tesami · 1935Poems in which animals, things and people dispute the lesson, in the forms inherited from the ancients.Literature
NovelThe Blind Owlبوف کورSadegh Hedayat · 1936A reclusive painter, haunted by a single image, no longer knows what he has seen or dreamed.Literature
Cinemaواریته بهاریParviz Khatibi · 1949Sketches from the stage, filmed on the upper floors of a cinema in Tehran.Cinema
CinemaشرمسارEsmail Kushan · 1950A peasant woman, seduced and deceived, finds refuge in song, between her village and the stages of the capital.Cinema
NovelHer EyesچشمهایشBozorg Alavi · 1952The secret of a painting and its model, in the Iran of the clandestine struggle against Reza Shah.Literature
CinemaولگردMehdi Raisfiruz · 1952A man ruined by jealous people wanders for seventeen years far from his family, in a sung melodrama of postwar Tehran.Cinema
PoetryزمستانMehdi Akhavan-Sales · 1956Poems of the moral winter of the fifties, and a few love pieces.Literature
Poetryدیوان بهارMohammad-Taqi Bahar · 1956not translated into EnglishFifty years of Iranian politics in the classical forms of Persian poetry.Literature
Poetryهوای تازهAhmad Shamlou · 1957Poems of mist, fairies and love, written in Persian verse freed from classical prosody.Literature
NovelThe School Principalمدیر مدرسهJalal Al-e Ahmad · 1958A schoolteacher promoted to principal of a suburban school, and what he discovers there about his country.Literature
Poetryسرمه خورشیدNader Naderpour · 1960not translated into EnglishPoems of love and of night, in which light restores sight to one who could no longer see.Literature
CinemaThe House Is Blackخانه سیاه استForough Farrokhzad · 1963The daily life of a community of sick people filmed like a poem, between sacred verses and battered faces.Cinema
CinemaNight of the Hunchbackشب قوزیFarrokh Ghaffari · 1965An old Arab tale transplanted to Tehran in the sixties, where a corpse is passed from door to door.Cinema
NovelThe Patient Stoneسنگ صبورSadegh Chubak · 1966Tenants of an old provincial house, each shut up in his own voice, in the mid-thirties.Literature
Short storiesFear and Tremblingترس و لرزGholam-Hossein Saedi · 1968A Gulf coast where the sea commands everything and fear takes the place of knowledge.Literature
Short storiesمد و مهEbrahim Golestan · 1969not translated into EnglishThree stories in which memory rises to the surface, from a childhood in Shiraz to injustices seen on a quay.Literature
NovelThe Princeشازده احتجابHoushang Golshiri · 1969The end of a princely line, told from the depths of a sickroom.Literature
NovelSavushunسووشونSimin Daneshvar · 1969The Allied occupation of southern Iran, seen from a house in Shiraz by a woman who wanted only peace.Literature
CinemaQeysarقیصرMasoud Kimiai · 1969A debt of honour that the law will not settle, in the streets and baths of a working-class district of Tehran.Cinema
CinemaThe CowگاوDariush Mehrjui · 1969A peasant who has nothing but his cow, in a village that poverty cuts off from the rest of the country.Cinema
Novelروزگار دوزخی آقای ایازReza Baraheni · 1970not translated into EnglishA favourite slave tells of the torments and the pleasures of power, in a Persia where the centuries merge.Literature
CinemaDownpourرگبارBahram Beyzai · 1972A shy intellectual parachuted into a working-class suburb, amid love, rivalry and gossip.Cinema
NovelMy Uncle Napoleonدایی جان ناپلئونIraj Pezeshkzad · 1973The obsession with the English plot, mocked in a large Tehran family during the war.Literature
NovelThe Neighborsهمسایه‌هاAhmad Mahmoud · 1974The years of oil and anger, seen by an adolescent from a shared courtyard in Ahvaz.Literature
CinemaThe Night It Rainedاون شب که بارون اومدKamran Shirdel · 1974A heroic news item from Gorgan province, taken apart testimony by testimony.Cinema
CinemaThe TravelerمسافرAbbas Kiarostami · 1974A provincial boy whom nothing stops, neither lies nor cunning, on the road to a football match.Cinema
CinemaStill Lifeطبیعت بیجانSohrab Shahid Saless · 1974An old level-crossing keeper and his wife, in the monotony of an isolated post, in the time of the country's rapid industrialisation.Cinema
PoetryThe Eight Booksهشت کتابSohrab Sepehri · 1976The complete poetic work of a painter from Kashan, from the garden of childhood to a mysticism without a Church.Literature
CinemaThe Garden of Stonesباغ سنگیParviz Kimiavi · 1976A shepherd from southern Iran, deprived of speech, and the garden he brought out of a dream.Cinema
NovelکلیدرMahmoud Dowlatabadi · 1984not translated into EnglishThe saga of a Kurdish family of Khorasan in the aftermath of the Second World War, amid drought, vendetta and revolt.Literature
CinemaThe RunnerدوندهAmir Naderi · 1985A child alone on the docks of Abadan, who collects, sells, learns and runs, not far from the war.Cinema
CinemaCaptain Khorshidناخدا خورشیدNaser Taghvai · 1987An American novel of the thirties transposed to the Iranian shores, amid smuggling and flight by sea.Cinema
NovelTouba and the Meaning of Nightطوبی و معنای شبShahrnoush Parsipour · 1988Eighty years of Iranian history in the life of one woman, into which the marvellous enters without warning.Literature
CinemaThe Cyclistبایسیکل‌رانMohsen Makhmalbaf · 1988A refugee reduced to making a spectacle of his misery, on a track of beaten earth.Cinema
CinemaLittle Bird of Happinessپرنده کوچک خوشبختیPuran Derakhshandeh · 1988A child walled in by silence and a teacher who stubbornly tries to reach her.Cinema
CinemaMotherمادرAli Hatami · 1990A divided family reunited around a mother who calmly prepares for her end.Cinema
Short storiesمومیا و عسلShahriar Mandanipour · 1996An old house, a family under the thumb of the patriarch, and a viper that no one manages to drive out.Literature
CinemaThe MirrorآینهJafar Panahi · 1997A schoolgirl lost in Tehran, and a film that falls apart when its young performer refuses to act.Cinema
CinemaBride of Fireعروس آتشKhosrow Sinai · 2000A medical student caught up by the law of her tribe, between the city and the desert.Cinema