TEHRAN -- U.S. translator Paul Sprachman is scheduled to visit Iran in late August to introduce his English translation of Iranian author Ahmad Dehqan’s book “Bearing 270 Degrees”, the Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday.

“Bearing 270 Degrees” is a novel about the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as the Sacred Defense in Iran.

Sprachman, who is the vice director of the Undergraduate Studies Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, traveled to Iran last year in order to consult with Dehqan on the translation of some words and terms that are common in Sacred Defense literary texts.

He also attended several sessions held at the Art Bureau to survey the status of Iranian literature in the United States.

Sprachman can read and write Persian, Arabic, German, Hindu-Urdu, French, and Latin. He is also somewhat familiar with Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew.

“A Man and Many Worlds: The Notes and Memoirs of Dr. Qasem Ghani” (forthcoming), Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh’s “What’s Sauce for the Goose” (translated in 2002) and “Once Upon a Time” (1985), “Esmat’s Journey” (by Ebrahim Golestan, 2002), and “Plagued by the West” (Jalal Al-e Ahmad, 1982) are the Persian books he has previously rendered into English.

He has also authored the books “Language and Culture in Persian” (2002), “Discovery Persian: An Elementary and Intermediate Persian Textbook” (1999), “Suppressed Persian: An Anthology of Forbidden Literature” (1996), “Introduction to the Modern Middle East: A Logic of Time and Place” (1994), and “Calligraphy, Commerce, and Spirit in the Art of Dorothy Yung” (1994).