Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience.
亘乇賳丿賴 賱賵丨 夭乇蹖賳 亘蹖爻鬲 爻丕賱 丿丕爻鬲丕賳鈥屬嗁堐屫驰� 亘乇 讴賱蹖賴 丌孬丕乇貙 亘賴 賴賲乇丕賴 丕賲蹖賳 賮賯蹖乇蹖 郾鄢鄯鄱 丿乇蹖丕賮鬲 噩丕蹖夭賴 蹖讴 毓賲乇 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 賮乇賴賳诏蹖貙 亘丿乇 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 丿賵乇賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 丕丿亘蹖 蹖賱丿丕 亘賴 賴賲鬲 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 讴丕乇賵丕賳 賵 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 丕賳丿蹖卮賴 爻丕夭丕賳 郾鄢鄹鄄 亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 丕丿亘蹖 賵丕賵 郾鄢酃郯 Award for International Literature at the House of Cultures in Berlin 2009 Nominated Asian Literary Award for the novel Collon Collin 2011 Nominated for Man Booker International prize 2011 亘乇賳丿賴 噩丕蹖夭賴 丕丿亘蹖 賴賵卮賳诏 诏賱卮蹖乇蹖 亘乇丕蹖 蹖讴 毓賲乇 賮毓丕賱蹖鬲 鄄郯郾鄄 English translation of Colonel's novel, translated by Tom Petrodill, nominee for the best translation book in America 2013 Winner of the Literary Prize Ian Millski Switzerland 2013 Knight of the Art and Literature of France 2014
讴賱蹖丿乇 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 丕賵賱 賵 丿賵賲 = Kelidar: Novel, Book 1 and Book 2, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Kelidar (1977 to 1984) is Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's monumental novel, one of the most famous Persian novels. This novel is of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes, consisting of ten books.
Kelidar is a saga about a Kurdish nomadic family that spans 10 books and 3,000 pages. praises its "heroic, lyrical, and sensual" language.
The story is tremendously popular among Iranians due to "its detailed portrayal of political and social upheaval." Dowlatabadi spent over a decade crafting the tale. "I spent fifteen years preparing, writing short stories, sometimes writing works that were a little longer, the grounds towards what would become Kelidar," he said.