Review · Iran Book News Agency
The hidden geography of a reading life
English editorial guide title.
A review of Arash Azarpanah’s book records a conversation with Rabihavi among its interviews about form, language and writing.
- Credited to
- Ali Shoroughi
- Publication
- Iran Book News Agency
- Source date
- 21 January 2026
- Published language
- Persian
- This page
- English source guide
English editorial guide to the original publication. Assessments and recollections remain attributed to their speakers.
The book being discussed
Ali Shoroughi reviews Arash Azarpanah’s Ruzi ke Ketab-baz Shodam, published by Sales. He follows its movement from recollections of childhood and discovering the city to reading, collecting books and becoming a writer. The review concerns Azarpanah’s composite book, rather than a newly published Rabihavi novel. Source 1
An earlier unsigned IBNA publication report, dated 29 December 2025, separately describes the book’s three sections: memoirs, interviews and essays. It explicitly names Rabihavi among the eight interviewees. That report corroborates the book-contained conversation, while Shoroughi’s later review supplies an individual critical reading; neither article delivers the full Rabihavi interview. Source 2
The second part contains interviews with eight contemporary writers, including Rabihavi. Shoroughi identifies attention to form and language as a common thread, with questions about writing continuing from the autobiographical section. The list also names Abutorab Khosravi, Abbas Abdi, Monireddin Beirouti, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Shahriar Mandanipour, Kourosh Asadi and Ebrahim Golestan. Source 1
A route to a further conversation
This publication supplies a concrete lead to a book-contained Rabihavi interview. It does not provide the interview’s full questions and answers, its recording date or a separate transcript. Readers can use the original review to locate the volume, while the conversations already documented here remain individually sourced. Source 1
Sources & credits
- IBNA · Ali Shoroughi on Arash Azarpanah’s book
Book review, 21 January 2026. It identifies a Rabihavi interview within Ruzi ke Ketab-baz Shodam, rather than reproducing that interview.
- IBNA · Non-fiction and memories of a literary life
Unsigned publication report, 29 December 2025. Names Rabihavi among the writers interviewed in the second section of Arash Azarpanah’s book. The available report contains no complete interview or its original recording date.