List of International Awards and other Distinctions
2017 Candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards
2017 Candidate for IBBY List of Books for Young People with Disabilities for the book “Call Me Ziba”
Shortlisted in the 2017 White Ravens listing with the book “Call Me Ziba”
2018 Candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards
2019 Candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards
2018 Shortlisted for Hans Christian Andersen Award
2020 Shortlisted for Hans Christian Andersen Award
2020 candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards
2023 candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
List of National Awards and other Distinctions
1994 Selected by Teen Soroush Book Festival for the book, “Snakes and Stairs”
1994 Selected by Kanoon Year Book Festival for the book, “Masho in Fog”
1995 Iran Book of the Year citation for the book, “Masho in Fog”
1998 Selected by the 7th Press Festival in Children Stories Section
1998 Selected by the Children Literature Festival for his collection of books from 1978 to 1996
1998 Selected by the Resistance Literature Festival for the book, “Moonlight’s Guest”
1999 Selected by “Once Upon a Time” Festival for the book, “The Beautiful Telltale Monster”
1999 Selected by Roshd Educational Books Festival for the book, “Amir Kabir”
1999 Selected by Hello Kids magazine in the stories for teens for the book, “Love and the Mirror”
2000 Selected by Hello Kids magazine in the stories for children for the book, “Two Greasy Mouthfuls”
2001 Selected by the 10th Press Festival in Children Stories Section
2002 Selected by the Resistance Literature Festival for the book, “The Backyard”
2002 Selected by Hello Kids magazine in Children Stories section for the book, “The Same Purple Shoe”
2005 Selected by the Children Writers Association for the book, “The Pot-headed Monster”
2006 Isfahan Literary Awards citation for the book, “Kootikooti Tales”
2006 Selected by the Book and Media Festival for the article, ‘The sour grapes are thirsty’
2007 Selected by Salam Festival in Children Stories section for the book, “KootiKooti Stories”
2007 citation from the Cultural Association of Children Books Publishers for the book, “I Like the Sound of the Rainfall”
2007 Selected by Kanoon Press Festival for the note, “I get soaked in the rain”
2008 Selected by the Children Writers Association for the short story, “Chewing the Snowman’s Nose”
2008 Iran Book of the Year citation for the book, “The Scorpions of the Bambak Ship”
2008 Kanoon citation for the book, “The Scorpions of the Bambak Ship
2009 Citation for his literary works from MehrTaha Institution
2011 Citation from the 16th Book of the Year Festival by Kanoon for the book, “Galope”
2012 the first prize of the Teen Audience for his book, “Hasti”
2012 Silver Turtle from the 1st Flying Turtles Festival for the book, “Hasti”
2012 Citation from the Children Books Council for the book, “Hasti”
2013 Selected by the 16th Book of the Year Festival by Kanoon for the adopted book, “Saadi’
2014 Selected by the 14th ShahidGhanipoor Festival for the book, “This Weblog Will Be Transferred”
2016 The Winner of the 12th Children’s Magazines ‘Festival’s Prize, The Institute for the Intellectual Development for Children & young Adults, “The Scorpion’s Time”
2016 The Winner of the 18th Children’s Magazines ‘Festival’s prize, The Institute for the Intellectual Development for Children & young Adults, “Call me Ziba”
2016 The Winner of Children’s Book Council’s Award, “Call me Ziba”
2016 Appreciated from Children’s Book Council of Iran, “Mrs. Parrot & Mr. Merchant”
2016 The Winner of the 1st Country’s Book readings’ Clubs’ Award, “The Children’s Favorites’ Author”
2017 Appreciated in the 5th Mehr Festival’s Award, “Carrot’s Ice cream” (This festival is held by several Protective organizations for derelict’s girls, and all the jury members of these centers are young adults)
2017 The 30th International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults citation for the adapted screenplay “Hasti”
2017 Selected author in the 9th Cultural Association of Children Book Publications Festival for the book “Call me Ziba”
2018 Received a Certificate of Honor from IBBY in the 36th Bhutan International Congress of Children Literature for the book “Call Me Ziba”
2018 Received a letter of appreciation from Hans Christian Anderson Award
2018 Children Book Council of Iran citation for the book “An Umbrella with White Butterflies”
2019 Received The White Hoopoe by children and young adults from all over Iran for the book “Hasti”
2024 Received The Silver Flying Turtle Award for the book “Not Like Every Day”
Candidacy
2004 Candidate for Golshiri Award for the book, “The Backyard”
2004 Mehregan Award citation for the book, “The Backyard”
2004 Candidate for the Golden Pen Award for the book, “The Backyard”
2004 Candidate from Iran Book of the Year Award for the book, “The Backyard”
2010 Kanoon citation for the book, “The Scorpions of the Bambak Ship”
2011 Candidate for the Iran Book of the Year Award for the novel, “Hasti”
2012 Candidate for Kanoon Book Award for the novel, “Hasti”
2014 Candidate from the third Flying Turtle Award for the book, “This Weblog Will Be Transferred”
2014 Candidate in the 17th Kanoon Festival for the book, “This Weblog Will Be Transferred”
2015 Candidate for the 4th Flying Turtles Award for the novel, “The Sweet Times”
2015 Candidate for the 15th Shahid Ghanipoor Award for the book, “Don’t Catch Cold, Kootikooti”
2016 Candidate for the Book of the Year Award for the book “Call Me Ziba”
2016 Candidate for the Flying Turtles Award for the book “Call Me Ziba”