Books in Persian,
published in Sweden.
Daad Bokförlag is a publishing house in Malmö, Sweden. We translate award-winning children's and young adult literature into Persian, and publish classical poetry.
Contemporary children's and young adult literature in Persian translation, for readers aged nine and up.
This is my night book. In it I write about everything funny and awful that has happened to me and my best friend Anna. About Ricke teasing me for my cold hands, and about everything I am afraid of. About Daniel, and about all the times I have fallen in love, or thought I had. But this is secret. So if you are reading it, stop right now and put the book back exactly where you found it. Yoko
Buy from our shop · 220 krGoodbye, night book. Imagine how much has happened in these two hundred and fifteen days. Now you know what it feels like to be eleven, and what it is like to want to comfort your best friend and not be able to. You know that a shy person can still fall in love, and what a whole summer without electricity or running water feels like. Now I have told you all the hard things I never tell anyone. Yoko
Buy from our shop · 220 krSometimes I wish I were someone else. Someone who never feels like she came from another planet and that nobody understands her. But honestly, I would not swap my life for anyone's. Not even Joyce's, who every boy is in love with. I want to be the Yoko who has the best friends in the world: Anna and Daniel, and the dog lying warm and soft beside me in bed. How good that I have a night book to tell everything to. Even about the party everyone but me was invited to, and about being too much of a coward not to shoplift. Yoko
Buy from our shop · 220 krA year has passed since I started writing in this book, and in that time the whole world has turned upside down. First I had the worst argument of my life with my best friend. Then that strange virus appeared. But plenty of good things happened too: we looked after a baby bird, Pontus, I became godmother to Daniel's kitten, and I went to Greece with my family. Imagine, I am nearly finished with sixth grade. I am the same old Yoko, and according to Anna and Daniel perfectly ordinary. Night book, I have a thousand hidden thoughts in my head. Some are so odd that you are the only one I dare tell.
Buy from our shop · 250 krI think about rats a lot. About the ordinary ones that scurry back and forth and squeal among the toasters and the junk, and about the others, the piss rats who poisoned life for the one person brave enough to be himself. Now I want to tell you about him. About Krister, my brother. I want to tell you what happened that rotten winter.
Buy from our shop · 235 krClassical verse in edited volumes with introduction and commentary.
The most complete translation of Shahriar's Heydar Baba. The introduction traces the poem's endurance to Azerbaijani folk song, bayati and ashik literature, and the translation preserves both rhythm and weight.
Buy from our shop · 200 krA singable verse translation into Azerbaijani of forty-one of the finest ghazals by Rumi, Hafez and Saadi. Many are already familiar to Persian speakers, since reading them calls up the voices of beloved Iranian singers, above all Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. In gathering and translating them, Meysam Sarabi Jiranbalaghi set out to pass them on to Turkic-speaking musicians and composers, so that his own community would not be without them.
Buy from our shop · 250 krDaad Bokförlag is a small publishing house in Malmö, Sweden. Our main work is translating award-winning children's and young adult literature from Swedish into Persian. We also publish classical poetry in carefully edited editions.
Books are available from our web shop and from Swedish booksellers. For rights enquiries, collaborations or submissions, please get in touch.