TEHRAN -- The Novin Audio Book Institute has recently released another version of Iranian writer and filmmaker Nader Ebrahimi’s book “Forty Letters to My Wife”.

The original book, which contains the materials that Ebrahimi wrote to his wife in practice for Persian calligraphy, was published in 2011.

The audio book narrated by actor Payam Dehkordi was unveiled during ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum last Wednesday.

Dehkordi and Ebrahimi’s wife, Frazaneh Mansuri, Nasser Cheshm-Azar, who is the composer of the audio book, and a number of cultural figures attended the ceremony.

Dehkordi narrated some parts of the book with a live piano recital by Cheshm-Azar.

An audio version of Ebrahim’s love story “A Quiet Loving” narrated by Dehkordi was published by the Novin Audio Book Institute in 2014.

Ebrahimi (1936-2008) was the author of many novels, including “Three Looks at the Man Coming From”, “A Man in Last Banishment”, “On the Blue Red Paths”, “Tomorrow Is Not Like Today”, “Ibn Mashghaleh”, “A Man in Permanent Exile”, “Once More, the Town That I Loved” and “Dragon’s Tale”.

As a filmmaker, he directed the TV series “Fire without Smoke” in the early 1970s based on his novel of the same title. He also made a screen adaptation called “The Sound of the Desert” in 1975. His second and last feature was “The Day When the Air Stopped”.

He also directed “Hami and Kami in Long Journeys to Their Homeland”, another TV series that was broadcasted by the Iranian state TV before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

The Seventeenth Street of Tehran’s Kargar Avenue, where Ebrahimi lived the last twenty years of his life at a home located on the street, was renamed Nader Ebrahimi after his death.

Photo: Payam Dehkordi (R) reads parts of Nader Ebrahimi’s “Forty Letters to My Wife” as Nasser Cheshmazar accompanies him with a piano recital during the unveiling ceremony of an audio version of the book at the Iranian Artists Forum in Tehran on December 16, 2015.

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