Story · Tavlan · Uppsala University
Hålan
Published Swedish title in Tavlan; the source bibliography identifies the Persian Hofre.
The Swedish translation begins with a dead soldier’s question about why nobody knows that he has become a martyr.
- Author
- Ghazi Rabihavi
- Publication
- Tavlan · Uppsala University
- Source date
- 2020
- Published language
- Swedish · translated from Persian
- Translation
- Forogh Hashabeiky
- This page
- English publication guide
English editorial orientation to the named source. The literary text remains with its original publication.
Reading orientation
Hålan begins with the gap between a death and its recognition by others. The soldier narrates the moment in the trench when a shadow becomes an armed man, then returns to the family and Zari who think he has disappeared. A posthumous voice keeps an intimate listener within the war scene. Source 2
The opening’s recurring winter gives the narrative a present that persists beyond the shooting. Reading the Swedish appearance alongside the Persian Hofre makes the publication’s translation relation explicit; it does not require treating the soldier’s claim of martyrdom as the guide’s own judgment. Source 2
Publication and language
Tavlan names Qazi Rabihavi as author and Forogh Hashabeiky as translator. The Uppsala volume is dated 2020; Hålan occupies printed pages 21-29. Its bibliography identifies the Persian Hofre in Az in makan, 1990. That source reference is distinct from the later Persian web republications. Source 1
Sources & credits
- Hålan · publication
Tavlan · Uppsala University. 2020. Swedish · translated from Persian. By Ghazi Rabihavi. Translation credited to Forogh Hashabeiky.
- Hålan · reading evidence
The Swedish translation begins with a dead soldier’s question about why nobody knows that he has become a martyr. The website paragraphs are editorial orientation to this source.