Mozhgan Babamarandi

Mozhgan Babamarandi (Persian: مژگان بابامرندی; born in Tehran, Iran), is an Iranian writer best known for children and young adult fiction.

She began her writing career in 1995. Her writing focuses on moral and social issues in Iran among children and adolescents. She bases her stories on her own childhood experiences. She prefers the short-story format, which is the most common format in which her works are published.

Babamarandi has received multiple nominations and won several national awards, including first Literary festival "Kam e Yusef" for her book: Only Daddy Can Wake Me Up. Her first novel Statue was published in Keyhan Bacheha, a children's magazine in 1996. One year later, in 1997, her second story: A Gift for Narges, was published by the Office of Islamic Culture Publications.

Education Mozhgan Babamarandi graduated with a bachelor's degree in Persian Literature and Master's in Dramatic Literature. First Prize in Directing at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults 4th Puppet Show Festival in Tehran Province, 2002, for the play The Man Had No Lips. "I have Missed Sunshine ", winning Tehran Selected Screenplay, 2003 Winning the Eighth rank of National 88 Words Internet Stories, 2008 "The Good Ashura Day" Play, selected as the best story of the province (Tehran), 2008 "Hi Grandpa ", Winning the "Hi Kids Festival; Salam Bacheha " award, 2009 "I Will Become a Spiderman Like Rostam", winning the Sixteenth Festival of Iranian Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2013 " Old Aunt Liked to Tell Story ", winning the competition of Cultural-Scientific Publications, 2014 "May God Turn the Steering Wheel" (the command), nominated for Press Book's Festival, 2016

Published books Since 1996, She has written more than 20 story books for Children and Young Adults, which all of them have been published.

Some of them are as follows:

Statue, Keiyan Bacheha-Iran, 1996 A Gift For Narges, The Office of Islamic Culture Publications-Iran,1997 All Stars For You, Madineh Publications-Iran, 2001 The Golden Fountain pen, Madreseh Publications-Iran, 2001 Hi Grandpa, Madreseh Publications-Iran, 2008 My First Word Was Butterfly, Soroush Publications-Iran, 2008 Even Men Sometimes Cry, Madreseh Publications-Iran, 2008 Sunshine Crossed Moonlight and Me, Amir Kabir Publications-Iran, 2009 What Is The Taste Of Secret ?, Cultural-Scientific Publications-Iran, 2009 Shy Guest, Cultural-Scientific Publications-Iran, 2009 Only Daddy Can Wake me Up, Iranian Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2009 Every Year Before The First Bell, Beh Nashr Publications-Iran, 2010 Let's Paint The Sky, Madreseh Publications-Iran, 2010

Madam Poetess And Mr. Beethoven, Beh Nashr Publications-Iran, 2011 My Amerindian Name, Soroush Publications-Iran, 2012 Why Sun Was Crying?, Amir Kabir Publications-Iran, 2012 Seven Stairs, Soroush Publications-Iran, 2012 I Will Become A Spiderman Like Rostam, Iranian Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, 2012 I Wish There Was Violet Beneath Every Snow, Soroush Publications-Iran, 2015 The Story Of Current Condition And The Wishes Of A Donkey, Peidayesh Publications-Iran, 2015 The Tickle's Cocoon Was Close To Grandma, Amir Kabir Publications-Iran, 2016 The Colour Of Daddy's Laugh, Monadiye Tarbiat Publications-Iran, 2017 The Yard Was Full Of Bird And Song, Monadiye Tarbiat Publications-Iran, 2017 In The Name Of God, Raise the Papers, Monadiye Tarbiat Publications-Iran, 2017