TEHRAN (Iran News) Mario Vargas Llosa, the renowned Peruvian novelist who has won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, died at the age of 89.

Known for transforming personal experiences into novels, Llosa’s works resonated well beyond the borders of his native country, earning him international acclaim.

Many of his books were translated into Farsi by Abdollah Kowsari, an Iranian translator who specializes in Latin American literature.

In 1990, Llosa ran for Peru’s presidency but was defeated in the run-off by Alberto Fujimori.

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Makarem Shirazi said the United Nations should thank the commander and his comrades-in-arms for their sacrifices and bravery that led to the defeat of Daesh, ISNA reported.

It came a day after Soleimani declared the end of the terrorist group in Syria and Iraqi in a message to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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“We really call on the US government to continue to certify and stay in this deal,” said the director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Beatrice Fihn, on Monday. ICAN won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.

The deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was struck in July 2015 and began being implemented in January the next year. Apart from Iran and the US, the other parties to the agreement are France, Russia, Germany, China, and the UK.

US President Donald Trump has long despised the deal in part because he perceived it as a legacy of Democratic former President Barack Obama. Since taking office a year after the deal took effect, the Trump administration has twice certified Iranian compliance under the specific American law that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is now reportedly planning to amend.

Those two certifications have been offered only half-heartedly, and indications are that a third one — due shortly in mid-October — may not be forthcoming.

“This is not really what the world needs right now… We see no evidence that Iran is not complying with it,” added Fihn.

Earlier in the day, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and many world leaders unanimously threw their weight behind the JCPOA, rejecting Trump’s claims that Tehran has violated the “spirit” of the deal.

Under the JCPOA, Iran undertook to put limitations on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.

Since the JCPOA Implementation Day, the IAEA has been verifying and monitoring Iran’s compliance with its nuclear-related commitments under the nuclear deal and has consistently verified the Islamic Republic’s compliance.

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The writers spoke to some Persian news agencies, commenting on the decision and Ishiguro on Thursday just hours after the academy announced the winner.

“The choice of this writer as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature is the academy’s response to its decision last year,” Soheil Somi told the Persian service of MNA.

Somi who has translated Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go”, “The Unconsoled” and “The Buried Giant” added that the decision represents a change in the academy’s tendency to honor “the special writers.”

“The academy adopts certain policies every year to select a writer as the winner of the Nobel prize in literature, but if you ask me to choose between Kazuo Ishiguro and Philip Roth, perhaps I would tell you that Roth is more deserving of the prize,” Somi stated.

“However, my comment never undermines the great value of Ishiguro’s works,” he noted.

A Persian translation of “Never Let Me Go” by Mehdi Ghabrai has also been published by Ofoq.

“I don’t suppose that anyone was annoyed by this choice,” Ghabrai told the Persian service of ISNA.

He praised Ishiguro and said that he certainly deserved the prize and added, “I have read most of Ishiguro’s works translated into Persian and I like the version of ‘The Remains of the Day’ rendered by Najaf Daryabandari.”

Speaking to ISNA, Ahmad Puri, an Iranian translator of Russian literature, also expressed his happiness over Ishiguro’s win.

“Ishiguro is his due to receive the prize,” he said and added, “Bon appetite!”

“He enjoys an acute mind and is a matchless writer with great skills and I am happy about his win,” he noted.

Due to an opinion that traditionally views the Nobel peace prize decision as highly political, Puri said the academy seems to have made “blunders” at times, “but they seem set to break new ground.”

Puri also made a comment concerning those people who criticize the academy for selecting most of their winners from European writers.

“It should not be viewed as discrimination; it is natural if a society is culturally developed, there will be a rise in the number of its writers,” he noted.

Iranian poet Zia Movahhed who is also the author of numerous publications on philosophy said that the Swedish Academy make the decision to award a Nobel prize in literature under the influence of political and ideological issues.

“However, we should not voice any doubt about the winners’ expertise in literature,” he noted in an interview with the Persian service of ILNA.

He said that due to its political and ideological outlook, the academy ignored Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlu, who otherwise deserved a Nobel prize in literature.

Persian readers, Kazuo Ishiguro

All Ishiguro’s novels have been published in Persian. He was introduced to Persian readers for the first time in 1996 by Najaf Daryabandari who gave a translation of his “The Remains of the Day”.

In 1999, his “A Pale View of Hills” and “A Village After Dark” translated by Amir Amjad and Elham Purnazari respectively came out.

A Persian translation of “When We Were Orphans” by Mojdeh Daqiqi was published by Hermes in 2000. A new translation by Majid Gholami-Shahedi was released in 2016.

There are three Persian versions of “Never Let Me Go”.  Soheil Somi gave the first one in 2004. The second and third ones came in 2007 and 2016 by Mehdi Ghabrai and Fatemeh Amini respectively.

Somi also translated “The Unconsoled” in 2006.

In 2008, Khojasteh Keihan and Alireza Keivaninejad provided two translations of Ishiguro’s short story collection “Nocturnes”. Another translation of the collection was published by Ghabrai in 2014.

“An Artist of the Floating World” came to Iranian bookstores for the first time in 2012. Yasin Moahammadi is the translator of the book. Another translation by San’an Seddiqi was published in 2015.

Besides Somi, Farmeht Amirdoost and Amir-Mehdi Ahqiqat translated Ishiguro’s latest novel, “The Buried Giant”.

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