Hoda Hadadi
Hoda Hadadi is an Iranian illustrator, author and poet. Her literary and visual works often support eco-feminism, featuring women as the narrators and heroes of their life stories. She delves into the lost narrators or forgotten narratives of women and their relationship with nature. She is particularly known for her collage technique in her visual artworks, especially her use of transparent silk paper.
Biography
Hadadi was three years old at the start of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and five when the Iran-Iraq War began, lasting for eight years. Her drawings during this period featured only girls, women, and nature, with no trace of war or ideology. At the age of ten, she began writing poems inspired by Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Her professional career began at nineteen, while she was a graphic design student at Tehran University of Art, with publications in children's magazines. To date, many of her books have been published in Iran, the United States Denmark, and France.Articles and reviews about Hadadi
Some Recent Articles about Hoda- 2023 A Comparative Study of the Human-Nature Relationship in The Fate of Fausto and I’ll Sow My Hands in the Garden
- 2021 “Reading Hoda Hadadi in Tehran” The Implicit Articulation of Lesbian Identity in Iranian Children’s Literature by Masih Zekavat/Johns Hopkins University press
- 2018. An Introduction to Ecofeminism: Alternative Ecofeminist Readings of Diling-a-DiLing and Two Friends/ Massih Zekavat, Europa-Universität Flensburg; Yazd University, Childhood Studies of Shiraz University /An Introduction to was published in Children’s Literature Studies in 2019
Awards
In 2018, Hadadi received five stars from the Danish newspaper Politiken for writing and illustrating the book "The Mountain That Wanted to Travel".- 2022 Honour certification of IBBY international For the book:, Malaysia
- 2021 and 2020 The little Black Fish medal for Best Illustrator, Also, Children's Book Council
- 2020, selected for The white Raven list of international youth library of Munich - Germany
- 2018, Gold Medal for Best Picture Book, International Book Award, USA
- 2017, Gold Medal for Best Illustrator, Literacy Classics Award, USA
- 2017, Gold Medal for Best Illustrator, Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, USA
- 2010, Winner of New Horizons of Bologna for Writing and Illustrating the book, Italy
- 2007, Grand Prix of Belgrade, Serbia
- 2007, Golden Plaque of BIB, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2005, Second Prize of Katha, India