28/09/2025
In September 2025, Dr Bo Utas was honored with the Mahmoud Afshar Foundation Award, a recognition that celebrates scholars who have made enduring contributions to Iranian studies and the historiography of Persian literature. The award underscores both Utas’s sustained scholarly impact and the international appreciation for his textual and linguistic work — a public acknowledgement that his editions, frequency studies and translations have substantially enriched the scholarly infrastructure of iranology. Bo Utas (b. 26 May 1938, Jämtland, Sweden) is one of the leading living scholars of Persian language and literature: a linguist, text editor, translator and historian whose work has deeply shaped modern iranology and our understanding of Middle and New Persian textual traditions. Over a career that spans more than half a century he has combined painstaking manuscript scholarship with broad comparative knowledge — producing critical editions, lexicographical studies, genre-analyses and literary translations that remain essential to specialists and accessible to a wider readership.
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