TEHRAN – Italian translator Michele Marelli is working on Iranian novel “Bearing 270 Degrees” by Ahmad Dehqan.

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

Marelli, who got his diploma in Persian from the Tehran University, is fluent Persian and English.

Mimesis International Publishing House in Italy is scheduled to release the book in the near future.

An English translation of “Bearing 270 Degrees” by U.S. translator Paul Sprachman was released in 2006.

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