TEHRAN – Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi will be playing host to a seminar titled “Contemporary Story Writing in India and Iran” on Friday.

A number of Iranian and Indian scholars, including the founding director of the Institute of Persian Research in Aligarh Muslim University, Azarmi Dukht Safavi, and Iranian scholar Fariba Vafi, are expected to attend the seminar. 

Science fiction and fantasy in Indian writing, and major trends of story writing in Iran are among the topics to be discussed at the seminar. 

The one-day seminar has been organized by the academy in collaboration with the Iran Culture House in New Delhi and Tehran’s Book City Institute.

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