Draft:Atoosa Salehi

Atoosa Salehi
Born	Persian: آتوسا صالحی 23 may 1972 (1972-05-23) (age 51) Tehran, Iran
Occupation(s)	Writer and Poet

Atoosa Salehi (Persian: آتوسا صالحی | born 23 may 1972 Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian writer and poet known for his children's and young adults literature.

Biography

Atoosa Salehiis an award winning, well-known Iranian author, translator, and poet. including novels, short stories, legends, graphic novels, picture books, and poetry. She has also contributed to children's and young adults’ press, including "Soroosh Nojavan", "Aftabgardan", and "Docharkhe".

Salehi has written and translated over 90 books and won numerous awards, such as Book of the Year. Some of her works have been translated to English, German ,Turkish, and Arabic. She is Ofoq Publishers’ editor for children and young adults’ section.

Writing Career

After winning the first competition for honorary reporter held by an important young adult magazine called "Soroush Nojavan", Atoosa Salehi began her professional career. Her first published works were poems printed in children’s and young adult publications. In her career, she has been in charge of the poetry pages of the weekly magazine and the first Iranian children’s newspaper called Aftabgardan. She has also worked as an editor and expert for several public and private publishing companies. Salehi is active in various areas of children’s and young adult literature. She composes poems, writes illustrated stories for children, writes novels, rewrites Old Persian texts, and also translates occasionally. Atoosa Salehi’s poetic viewpoint is the ring that links all of her works together. Critics recognize her series of Shahnameh Stories as one of the most successful recreations of this significant classic Iranian literary work ever published for children and young adults.

Stories

• Even One Minute Is Enough (Persian: حتی یک دقیقه کافی است), Young Adult Novel, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2010; Seventh edition.
• Dear Darya (Persian: دریای عزیز), Teaching Poetry in Plain Language, Cheshmeh publishing, 2007; reprinted: 2011.
• Like All but Like No One (Persian: مثل همه، اما مثل هیچ‌کس), Illustrator: Mitra Abdullahi, Teenage story, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2006; Third edition: 2015.
• Lettuce My Nice Car (Persian: ماشین قشنگ من کاهو), Illustrator: Marzieh Sarmashghi, Picture Book, Scientific and Cultural Publications, 2008.
• Has Anybody Seen the Little Monkey in Dream? (Persian: کسی خواب میمون کوچولو را ندیده؟), Illustrator: Haleh Darabi, Picture Book, Scientific and Cultural Publications, 2006.
• Tales of Shahnameh (Persian: قصه‌های شاهنامه) (12 volume collection of recreations of Shahnameh Tales), Illustrator: Niloofar Mirmohammadi , Ofogh Publishers from 1996 to 2014; 25th reprint: 2024.
• [[Parrot and Merchant (Persian: طوطی و بازرگان) , Illustrator: Nayereh Taghavi, Children’s Story, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2007.
• Siavash (Persian: سیاوش), Illustrator: Attieh Markazi, Children’s Story, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2007.
• Rouzbeh’s Migratory (Persian: کوچ روزبه), Illustrator: Nayereh Hesamaddin Tabatabaie, Picture Book, 2017.
• Nargol Adventures (Persian: ماجراهای نارگل), 4 volume set, Illustrator: Mahboubeh Yazdani, Children’s Story, Nardeban Publications, 2017.
• Genius Nima (Persian: نیما نابغه), 4 volume set, Illustrator: Nasim Bahari, Children’s Graphic Novel, Ofoq Publishers, 2020.
• Zahhak the Snake Shoulder: A Story with Seven Narrators (Persian: ضحاک ماردوش: روایت هفت راوی), Illustrator: Nayereh Taghavi, Children’s Story, Madreseh Publisher, 2020.
• 33 Star Hotel (Persian: هتل سی‌وسه ستاره) , Illustrator: Atefe Malekijoo, Picture Book, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2022.

Translations

• A Very Strange Creature, Ronda Armitage, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2013.
• Boa's Worst Birthday Party, Jane Willis, Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2017.

Awards

• Golden Diploma of Honor of the First Press Festival of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 1996 (Episode 1 to 3 of Shahnameh).
• The Golden Diploma of the Seventh Press Festival the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Poetry Section, November 1996, for Velvet Clouds collection of poems
• The Golden Diploma of 9th Book Festival of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults - March 1999 for Dear Darya
• First Grade Honorary Medal and Golden Pen of the Eleventh Press Festival of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, August 2004
• First Grade Golden Medal and Diploma of Honor from the Seventh Press Festival of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in the Poetry - November 2005
• Diploma of Appreciation from the Second Conference on the Celebration of Shahnameh, the National Olympic Academy of Iran – April 2006 (for Collection of Shahnameh Tales)
• The Prime Prize of teenage story section Second Festival of Women’s Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran, January 2008, (for Like All but like Nobody)
• Statue and Diploma of Honor, 6th Book of the Season Festival in the Children's Story - Summer 2008 (for Lettuce, My Nice Car)
• Honorary diploma of the best poetry book from the Children's and Adolescent Contemplation Center Book Fair - March 2008 (for I miss you)
• Special Introduction by Children's Book Council - March 2009, (for Parrot and the Merchant)

Statue Diploma of Appreciation for Jafar Pivar Literary Prize – February 2010, (for Parrot and the Merchant)

• Diploma of Appreciation from National Book of the Year - November 2009 (for I Miss You)
• Special Introduction by Children's Book Council - March 2010, (for I Miss You)
• selected by White Ravens, The Munich Library, 2010, (for I Miss You)
• Golden Medal and Diploma of Honor, 15th Festival of Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Teenage Novel Section, 2012, (for Even One Minute Is Enough)
• Golden Medal and Diploma of Honor, 17th Festival of Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Teenage Novel Section, 2012, (for Siavash)
• Appreciated at Shaheed Beheshti University for Collection of Recreation Books – 2014

selected by White Ravens, The Munich Library, 2020, (for Zahhak the Snake Shoulder: A Story with Seven Narrators)

External links

• [1] in fa.wikipedia.org
• [2] in Panbeh Bookstore
• [3] in Frankfurt Rights
• [4] in amazon.com