TEHRAN – A Persian translation of English writer Alan Bennett’s story “The Lady in the Van” by Mazdak Boluri has been published.
Ney is the publisher of the book originally published in 1999. Life imitates art in “The Lady in the Van”, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Bennett’s driveway from the early 1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if she tried, but her poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to her best fictional screenwriting.