Iranian writer Farhad Hassan-Zadeh believed writing about children affected by war, child abuse, child labor, and so on contributed to his candidacy for Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Farhad Hassan-Zadeh, an Iranian writer, and poet for children and adolescents, has been introduced to the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), by the Children’s Book Council, as a candidate for the International Christian Andersen Award 2018. The author was previously introduced together with Pezhman Rahimi-Zadeh, as candidates for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Award, which is one of the greatest international prizes in the field of children’s literature.
Referring to his candidacy for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, Hassan-Zadeh said: “This award is granted every two years by IBBY to authors and illustrators of children’s literature, and the Children’s Book Council as the representative of this office in our country introduced me as the candidate in 2018 from Iran.”
He pointed out that paying attention to the children affected by the war, child labor, and children in the care of bad guardians as well as addressing the issues that have not been paid much attention to in the works of children and young people are among the factors that attracted the attention of critics and experts to nominate him as a candidate for this award.
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