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  • 10/09/2025

Persian Literature in Translation: Reza Ghassemi in English

Minimalist AI-generated line drawing of four faceless abstract figures holding woodwind instruments, inspired by the Persian cover of Reza Ghassemi’s novel.

Deep Vellum will bring Iranian novelist and musician Reza Ghassemi’s debut work Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime to English readers…

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  • 04/09/2025

A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies by Ginny Tapley Takemori

Minimalist black-and-white line drawing of a teenage boy and a young girl in wartime clothes, standing together under fireflies with ruined buildings in the background.

The first English translation of Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies appeared in 1978, when James R. Abrams tried to…

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