Fardi: Judges of “Martyr Ghanipour Award”? Reached a Dead End This Year

TEHRAN, (SCIB) - Secretariat of “Festival of Martyr Habib Ghanipour Book of the Year”? said: “The judges of Martyr Ghanipour Award reached a dead end in “Adult”? section of the festival. And since we were insisting to have winner, we added one judge to the jury.

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شنبه - ۲۶ ارديبهشت ۲۰۰۸ / 2008 26 February

Amir Hossein Fardi, Secretariat of Festival of Martyr Habib Ghanipour Book of the Year”? delivered speech at closing ceremony of the festival and said: “This festival is the last literary festival of the country every year. And it is the good ending of literary festivals during the year. It was not our choice, but the choice of that martyr who was martyred on this date. And we hold the festival on such a date.”? He referred to characteristics of this award and said: “One of the characteristics of this festival is announcing the names of the jury months ago. And another characteristic is that it always selects the book of the year. It is possible that a book is weak; but it is not related to the festival. It actually goes back to literary situation of the society, he added. The secretariat of the festival emphasized on the fact that the situation of narrative literature of teenagers faces with danger. He said: “It will be exaggerated if we say situation of narrative literature in section of teenagers is tragic; but we should know that it faces with danger. The number of translated books is much more than written books. And here, in presence of my dear brother, Mr Parviz, Cultural Deputy of “Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance”?, I announce the danger.”? I wish we established a “House of Writing”? before establishing “House of Translation”? and attaching importance to translation. And for me, this process is interpreted as cultural aggression.”? As for the role of “Adults”? section of the festival, he said: “Considering the content, the books in this section of the festival were very dark and weak. And such content is not in direction of revolutionary movement of our people. Another issue is making books; it means that there are simple works that can be easily written and delivered to market by an ordinary writer during one or two months. It is not a problem in its nature; but we are a revolutionary and idealist nation with a very great literature. And today it is expected that great works are written in the field of literature.”? Mojtaba Rahmandoust, Cultural Consultant of the President also attended this ceremony and spoke about Hossein Haddad, one of the sacred defense writers and beginners of Celebration of Islamic Revolution Story who passed away this year. He said: “I never thought I would live more than Hossein Haddad. And I never thought I would speak about him in his funeral ceremony.”? Rahmandoust added: “Hossein Haddad was one of the writers who formed Islamic Revolution novel. We were sure he would finish any activity he started. He acted slowly; but he finished the job. He never spoke to other people about the fact that he worked a lot. After he passed away, I didn’t see anyone who could fill in for him. All people who accused him when he was alive were the first customers of his books.”? Cultural Consultant of the President further said: “I don’t remember him ever getting angry while he was working. He was very polite and committed to Islamic Revolution values. The number of his books shows that his sacred defense books are more than books with other subjects.”? Video clips about Hossein Haddad and Gheysar Aminpour were screened in closing ceremony of 7th Festival of Martyr Habib Ghanipour Book of the Year. And families of these two deceased writers attended the ceremony and were honored. It should be mentioned that characters such as Mohsen Parviz, Ami Hossein Fardi, Mojtaba Rahmandoust, Mohsen Momeni, Ahmad Dehghan, Reza Amirkhani and a large number of martyrs’ families and writers attended this closing ceremony.