Story collection · The work and its editions
Khaterat-e Yek Sarbaz · Diaries of a Soldier
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
Original language: Persian
Early war fiction that attends to a young soldier’s ordinary responses. Discussing the book, Rabihavi recalls a soldier who laughs and plays without understanding war. His censorship interview identifies it as a story collection; his later Aasoo conversation also places The Corpse within the book.
Source 15 · Source 18 · Source 8
A chapter in the biography · A chapter in the biographyQoqnus first edition, as printed on PDF page 3 of the retained original scan.
Rabihavi dates publication to autumn 1360 in the Aasoo interview. His earlier censorship conversation also places the collection in 1360. These recollections remain distinct from the inspected imprint.
English title used as a finding aid for the Persian work.
The original colophon labels this a first edition and names Qoqnus. Its five-story contents have been checked against the individual headings. No ISBN, precise printing day or relationship with later editions is established.
Qoqnus · autumn 1360
The original Qoqnus scan supplies a five-entry contents page. Each entry has been checked against the corresponding story heading, rather than inferred from the collection’s title or a later catalogue description.
The sequence below preserves the printed page numbers. These names are Latin transliterations of the Persian headings, not newly assigned English literary titles. The checked index establishes this edition’s contents; it does not establish the contents of another printing or a translated anthology.
Printed imprint · PDF page 3 identifies the author, Qoqnus and a first edition in autumn 1360, with printing rights reserved. The five-entry contents on PDF page 4 have been checked against the story headings on PDF pages 6, 17, 28, 39 and 50. Pages 1 and 70 supply genuine front and back covers. Visually checked 4 October 2026; the website upload date is not the printing date.
Author interview · Published 28 July 2023, following a conversation in summer 2022. The author discusses early war books, displacement, Maryam and Boys of Love. Recollections are distinguished from edition imprints.
Author interview · Page dated 15 February 2011. Author replies identify Memoirs as a story collection and discuss licences for Gisu, From This Place, Maryam and Iranian Four Seasons. The introductory chronology contains an apparent error.