TEHRAN – Iran’s pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair will host discussions by a number of foreign literati during the world’s largest trade fair for books that will be held from October 19 to 23.

Anshela Werner, a well-known Ukrainian poet, is scheduled to deliver a speech about Persian poetry on the first day of the book fair while Ursula Holpp, the director of the Africa, Southeast Asia, Korea and Iran section of the book fair, will talk about the cooperation between Iranian and German publications.

A discussion will also be held by Iris Radisch, the German journalist who is also the author of “Camus: The Ideal of Simplicity”, which has been translated into Persian by Mahshid Mirmoezi.

Ursula Visser, the German translator of “The Legend of the King and the Mathematician”, will also review the play penned by Iranian writers Mehdi Behzad and Naghmen Samini.

Katharina Müller, an expert on Iranian studies at Tubingen University, and German film director Mo Asumang will also deliver speeches.

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