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Public welcome to book fair gives rise to more official responsibility – Body director
1389/02/25-08:30
Mehdi Mostafavi, chief of Organization of Islamic Culture and Communications, reckoned that a major welcome accorded by the public to Tehran International Book Fair gave rise to more responsibility on the part of authorities in charge of social and cultural affairs.
Mostafavi described the public welcome to the 23rd edition of Tehran book fair as larger than a previous edition, adding that books offer the society a fine ground for exchange of views. "Fortunately, Tehran Book Fair has in large part been a successful effort for social interaction. It expands every year."
The chief aid his organization would grab the chance of the event in making contact with translators and publishers involved in a bid to raise their awareness about Iranian authorial capacities and promote a movement of translation into foreign.
In the same regard, Mostafavi noted that as a first ever effort to promote the movement, a department had been established in the organization in order to sort out translation affairs.
The organization has already commissioned translations of over 5,000 titles from Persian into a variety of international lingua francas, according to the chief.
