Poetry
نکهت خاک رهیار
Not translated into English
Muhammad Asef Fekrat Herawi · 2000
Synopsis
Nekhat-e khāk-e rah-e yār is a collection of Persian poems by Muhammad Asef Fekrat Herawi, published in Mashhad in 1379 of the solar calendar, that is 2000, in sixty-four pages. Its author, a native of Herat who left for Iran in 1981, worked in that city, on the holdings of the great library of the shrine. A second book of verse, Nasim-e sheydāyi, appeared the following year in Herat.
Context
The two poetry collections are only a small part of a body of work of more than twenty books: editions of historical texts from Herat, a book on the Herati dialect of Persian, prayers of the Pir of Herat, a translation of Elphinstone's Afghanistan. According to Hasht-e Sobh, some regard him as the country's first translator between the sixties and the eighties.
Who it is for
Poems in Persian, with no translation. It helps to know something of the Persian tradition of Herat, many of whose texts the author edited.
Prizes and reception
No known prize for this book; its author remains known above all as an editor of texts and a translator.
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