I'm very pleased to report that Marsha and I are managing well. Hello Sandra and Bill, First, I hope you are both well and coping reasonably in these tumultuous times. We look forward to seeing the final production. July 2021 is the planned publication date with a print price of some $10. This is a non-profit publication venture and the author’s proceeds will go to support school building projects in Iran. It is being published by Resource Publications (an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, ). Most of us would undoubtedly share that wish and we hope that his new book will achieve this aim. Siamak Akhavan is very keen that Khayyam’s wisdom should be shared with and enjoyed by everyone. Readers will reach their own views on whether these interpretations will be more accessible to a modern generation than other modern and earlier versions. Two examples of verses in the new translation are shown below. Our limited knowledge of Farsi suggests that the translations are a fairly direct interpretation of Khayyam’s originals. The rhyming pattern of the English quatrains seems to vary and there is no apparent ordering of them by subject or theme. In the pre-publication excerpts so far circulated, the translated verses are presented with the Farsi text below. The selection is taken from the quatrains published by key Iranian sources, including Hedayat and Forughi and Ghani among others.
The author has selected 122 quatrains which he considers to be the most genuine of the many verses that have been attributed to Omar Khayyam.
The translation is the work of an Iranian born author, Siamak Akhavan, who has lived in North America for many years and is currently based in California. We have received advance notification of the forthcoming publication of a new translation of the rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam., taken from the original Persian sources.
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