Our Authors

Azam was born in 1981 in Tabriz. She has a BA in Graphic Design. As a writer and translator, she has written 13 novels and translated more than 9 story books for children. Her works have received several awards in different national festivals.

You can find her full resume here.

Her writing awards include:

• The Sleepy Delicious Morsel, selected as the best picture book to participate in the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Winter 2014
• The Mermaid's child, acknowledged book in the Sepidar Festival for environmental books, winter 2015
• Baby in the spider web, nominated as the best picture book for toddlers, the festival of Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, fall 2016
• Mama was not a tiger, may be spring onion, may be a ribbon tied to a knife, may be..., nominated at the best children's novel, fall 2016
• Safoora the Saw and Gholam the Peevish, listed in The White Ravens Catalogue of the Munich Library, Fall 2017

Navid Seyyed Aliakbar is one of the younger writers of Iranian children's literature. He was born in 1983 in Tehran and majored in the restoration of historic artifacts. Seyyed Aliakbar began his story writing career at the age of seven when he had his stories published in magazines. The distinguishing feature of Aliakbar's stories is the pure and authentic imagination seen in them. Most of his works are for children.
He tries to create a fantasy embedded in reality and associated with real life by using the cultural capacities and characteristics of Iranian children. It is this feature that distinguishes his works from those by the other new generation Iranian writers and attracts the attention of scholars and critics. 

You can find his full resume here. 

Farnaz Tabrizi holds a master's degree in drama from Tehran University. She has worked as translator, editor and journalist for numerous publications and cultural centers for several years. Some of her translations of children's books include Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (Geronimo Stilton, No. 1) by Geronimo Stilton, and the series Old Tom by Leigh Hobbs, published by Houpaa publishers

Publications

• "Little Stories", Shabaviz, 2003
• "There is one storksbill between us", Shabaviz, 2001
• "hey mollusk! what do you want?" Shabaviz, 1999
• "Kimia", Shabaviz, 1999
• "winter bride", Shabaviz, 2011
• "the cherries are mellow in heaven", Shabaviz, 2006
• "Tehran: the third person Narrative", Shahr pub, 2009
• "Me and my redskin", Howz-e-Noghreh pub, 2007
• "on e a big elephants nose", Elmi Farhangi pub, 2006
• "Ghooghooli GhooGhool, Ofogh pub, 2010
• "Ruby", Ofogh pub, 2012
• "I'll be a train, if I was not a female", poems collection, Chekke pub, 2013
• "I love you!" , 5 volumes series, Chekke pub, 2014
• "Flying bench, the cheesecake seller girl and the very sad me", Nezhat pub, 2013
• "Biti and Ziti", Elmi Farhangi pub, 2016
• "Why Roya going to party while sikting", Picture book, Elmi Farhangi pub, 2016
• "The sweet persian stories", 8 volumes series, Shar e ghalam, 2016
• "Sputer little girl", Hoopa pub, 2016
• "the 8th floor witch", Hoopa pub, 2016

Works Translated

• "little stories" translated to: English and Korean
• "GhooGhooli GhooGhool" translated to: Italian
• "Hey mollusk! What do you want?" translated to: turkish, Spanish, English
• "Kimia" translated to: Indian, English

Awards

• Salam Bacheha best book award for "little stories", 2004
• Salam Bacheha best book award for "there is one storksbill between us", 2005
• Golden diploma of 16th book Festival of institue for the intellectual development of children and young adults Award for "ruby", 2013
• The best Award of Press Festival of institue for the intellectual development of children and young adults, for all career, 2013
• The best Award of Press Festival of institue for the intellectual development of children and young adults, for the "blue house" page, Docharkhe Weekly, 2012
• Diploma and best Award of Abbas Yamini Sharif Award for "I'll be a train, if I was not a female", 2013
• Diploma and best Award of Iranian IBBy for "I'll be a train, if I was not a female", 2013
• Best Note , the press festival of nstitue for the intellectual development of children and young adults, 2014
• "Ruby" selected in White Crow list, 2013

Scripts:

• "beauty and beast", Directed by Vahid Nikkhah Azad, 2010
• "Mahbubeh", Produced by IRIB, 2007
• "the holiday gift" produced by IRIB, 2007
• "Thirteen, fifty-seven", produced by IRIB, 2008
• "the uninvited guests", Animated series, Produced by Saba, 2008
• "One word-two words", Animated series, Produced by saba, 2009
• "Sa'di's Bottom", Animated Series, produced by Saba, 2011
• "Gaggila" animated series, produced by saba, 2010
• "mew-mew lets have a story", animated series, produced by saba, 2012
• "Gigool", Animated series, produced by Nas studios. 2016-now
• "Jan-Janha", animated Series, Produced by Nas Studios, 2016-now

Research and Teaching experiments

• "content analysis of persian young Adult blogs", Komak Amuzeshi pub, 2005
• Animation Writing workshops, Saba Center, 2012
• Poem Workshop, iranian Writers for children association, 2014
• Co-writing "the enclopedia of Children Literature characters", 2002

Memberships:

• The permanent memebr of Iranian Writers for children Association
• The member of Directors board of Iranian Writers For children Association, 2010-2016
• The permanent and funding member of LakPosht parande (Flying turtle) list
• The member editorial of Docharkhe Weekly, 2010-now
• The Editor of "blue home" page of Docharkeh Weekly, 2010-now

You can find her full resume here.

Meet her on twitter @hadis60