TEHRAN -- Iran in collaboration with Venezuela will be publishing the first Spanish translation of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh.

 

The Spanish translation has been completed with the cooperation of Iranian Society of Cultural Works and Luminaries (ISCWL) and the Venezuela Embassy in Tehran, ISCWL director Hojjatoleslam Mohammad-Javad Adabi said in a press conference here on Monday.

 

Adabi added that the book will be unveiled in Iran and Venezuela respectively during a special ceremony within the next two months.

 

Shahnameh, which is known as the “Book of Kings” in English, is the celebrated work of the epic poet Ferdowsi, in which the Persian national epic found its final and enduring form. It was completed in 1010. The Shahnameh millennium was accepted on UNESCO’s 2010 calendar of events.

 

According to historical sources on Persian literature, Ferdowsi spent 30 years writing the Shahnameh, which is comprised of nearly 60,000 verses.

 

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