Farhad Hassanzadeh
Iranian Author
Bang! Bang! Bang! is a simple story
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TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) – Nominees of Iran’s Association of Writers for Children and Youth for the 2023 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) were announced on Tuesday.
Writer Farhad Hassanzadeh and reading promoters Nushafrain Ansari and Nader Musavi will be competing for the prestigious Swedish prize for children’s literature in the world.
In a press release, the association said, “With a professional career spanning nearly four decades, Farhad Hassanzadeh has produced amazing stories for children and young adults, which have been acclaimed by readers and received Iranian and foreign prizes.”
He has been selected for his concern for the environment, issues on women and girls in the modern world, and human values such as peace, friendship and children’s rights as well as his different view of wars.
Ansari received the nomination “for about six decades of activities in librarianship and as a reading promoter, and her contributions to reading culture and the Iranian Children’s Encyclopedia, and the establishment of numerous cultural organizations such as the Children’s Book Council of Iran.
As an Afghan immigrant, Musavi was picked as the association’s foreign nominee for the award.
As a writer and teacher, Musavi has made great endeavors for over 20 years to promote reading among the children of Afghan expatriates living in Iran.
He is the author of several books carrying materials for Afghan migrant children about their motherland.
He also travels across Iran every year to run reading programs in over 350 schools for Afghan migrant children.
Musavi and Iranian writers Ahmad Akbarpur and Ali-Asghar Seyyedabadi have also been nominated for the 2023 ALMA by the Children’s Book Council of Iran.
The Institute for Research on History of Children’s Literature, and the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCY-Kanoon) are other Iranian cultural centers allowed to select Iran’s nominations for the ALMA.
Kanoon has previously announced writer Hamidreza Shahabadi and illustrator Reza Dalvand as its nominees for the 2023 ALMA.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award amounts to SEK 5 million (about €570,000), making it the world’s largest award for children’s and young adults’ literature.
The award was established in 2002 by the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs to commemorate Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren and to promote children’s and youths’ literature from around the world.
Source:Tehran Times
Bachehaye Maah or Moon Children and teaching story writing to children
Farhad Hasanzadeh is very keen on teaching children.
Hasanzadeh besides writing (especially in Corona period when people had to stay home) set up on line story writing workshops for children and youth. Up to now, he has taught 300 story-writing students and is continuing to do so.
His method of teaching in these workshops are unique. He works with each child according to his or her individual characteristic and creativity. There is no teacher and student hierarchy in his workshops. Children train to become writers along with playing games and learn about social skills, reviews, philosophy and friendship. He has a follow up policy after classes finish and sets up his students in online groups. This group, which is called “Moon Children”, has 100 members. Teen agers in these groups can talk about their favorite subjects, and have discussions about film, story, poetry, and painting. They bring out a monthly virtual publication called “Moon Children” that is done by them from A to Z. This publication is exactly like a professional publication with different sections and all its parts are written and laid out by children themselves.
These creative and energetic children, who are from different parts of Iran, are making a podcast that is partly made and performed by them. Moon Children are also active in promoting book reading and cultural gatherings. In the recent Tehran Book Fair, they had two meetings and became acquainted with each other.
Moon Children web log is: https://bachehayemah.blog.ir/

Download the 2020 Shortlist Announcement and view the HCAA 2020 Shortlist Film. Profiles of the HCAA Shortlist authors and illustrators can be found below and as selected pages from the Hans Christian Andersen Award edition of Bookbird here.
Christian Anderson Certificate of Appreciation for Farhad Hassanzadeh
In September 2021, the 37th International Congress of Children’s and Young adlut’s Literature was hold in Moscow. This program, which was postboned last year due to the pandemi, covered various programs among which were two great news for Farhad Hassanzadeh and his works.
He was honored receiving the diploma of Hans Christian Andersson Award for the second time after 2018 in Greece. He had got into the shortlist among authors like Jacqueline Woodson from USA, Maria Cristina Ramos from Argentina, Bart Moeyaert from Belgium, Marie-Aude Murail from France and Peter Svetina from Slovenia. According to the jury it was Jacqueline Woodson who won the award.
Furthermore, one of Farhad Hassanzadeh’s books, An Ambrella with White Butterflies, got into the IBBY Honour List because of its illustrations.The illustrator, Ghazzaleh Bigdelou received the diploma because of her work on this book. An Ambrella with White Butterflies has been welcomed so warmly in Iran and is translated into three languages i.e. Spanish, Korean and Mandarin.


