Persian 1954
May 21, 2019
Title: شاهزاده کوچولو (Shazdeh Kudzhulu)
Language: Persian
Publisher: Iranian Library (Ketabkhan-e Iran)
Translator: Mohammad Ghazi
Place of publication: Tehran, Iran
Year of Publication: 1954
This is for me the most beautiful book of my collection, the book I appreciate more, probably the reason of everything ! And the reasons are several but the most important is because the two amazing woman I´ve found during my research, Poupak Sebti and Shirin Maleki. In fact this website is a dedicatory to them, without their help I would never start again to walk the path of The Little Prince after selling my collection in 2011.
So thank you Poupak and Shirin it is an honor and joy and privilege to be here with you.
Other reasons because I feel it is so important is because I still remember the moment when my friend told me that she has found a translation dated on 1954. 1954 ???, no !!! she probably made a mistake, all the data I found during my research said that the First Persian edition was published in 1968, how come show up a publication 14 years before I expected ? Well I believed it was a misunderstanding among Persian calendar and Gregorian so I made a bad calculation between 1968 AD - 1347 and 1954-1333, Poupak chat:
-“Guess what…I am holding the very first edition of LPP translated by Mohammad Ghazi published in 1954 in my hands!!!!”
- 1954 ?
- “Yep! It is published in May 1954 by Iranian Library (Ketabkhan-e Iran) publishing Co…see the pic in the next mail….it is soo cute…old with yellow papers!”
BOOOOOMMM !!! my mind blow ! the chronology of the translations of The Little Prince what I believe is very important to have it in order suffered a drastic change, it that means that the Persian translation was one of the first to be done after the First edition published in 1943.
How come that was possible ? my research to find the 1968 edition may be counted on that time 500 hours ? I don´t know, so many months may be a year or more. And now my friend is telling me that she found a 1954 edition ? !!! well it is difficult to explain what is the feeling, the sensation, I think this is one of the facts that make the collection of The Little Prince so unique and exciting because make you feel all kind of different emotions that nothing else can give you. To find this book was probably the highlight of my collection because had a perfect mix: time, effort, meeting super interesting friends and at the end an amazing surprise. What else I could say,…? well, yes, money will never give you that. Offering money in the first line will never allow you to find these kind of books.