Mehdi Azar Yazdi
Mehdi Azar Yazdi ( Persian مهدی آذر یزدی) (Born March 18, 1922 in Khorramshah ; † July 9, 2009 in Tehran ) was an Iranian author of children and young people. He received several awards for his work.
Life
Mehdi Azar Yazdi was born in Khorramshah, a suburb of Yazd . His ancestors had been Zoroastrians two or three generations earlier . Mehdi Azar Yazdi was raised in the Muslim faith. His parents had taken part in the pilgrimage to Mecca. He learned to read the Koran from his grandmother . He received lessons in writing from his father. From the age of twelve he attended the school of the Khan of Yazd for half an hour of grammar lessons every day for two years . As a child he worked with his father in agriculture, in the garden and in the steppe. He later completed an apprenticeship as a mason and earned his living as a stocking knitter and apprentice at a bookseller. At the age of 35 he began to retell and edit stories from works of ancient Persian literature as well as from Persian translations of Arabic books for children and adolescents in a simple and contemporary language. Mehdi Azar Yazdi died after a long illness at the age of 87 in Tehran.
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The work “Good stories for good children” appeared in eight volumes from 1957. It contains adaptations of stories from the Golestan , Masnavi -e Manavi, Marzbanname, Sindbadname, from the Koran and the life of the Prophet Mohammad and was awarded a UNESCO prize in 1966 . In Iran, the book was also voted best book of the year in the children's and youth literature category in 1967. His other work “New Stories from Old Books” was published in ten issues between 1965 and 1972. They contain, among other things, fables, stories about Persian proverbs, retellings from the treatises of Shams-e Tabrizi as well as an adaptation of the story Hayy ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail . An anthology containing the ten issues reached its 15th edition in 2012. Five of the ten issues are available in German translation under the title “The core of the matter”. Mehdi Azar Yazdi's books deal with ethical issues.
Trivia
The Azar Yazdi Prize was awarded for the first time in 2015.
German editions
- The heart of the matter. AKV Edition Hamouda, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-940075-97-0 .
- Good stories. Islamic Center Hamburg, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-925165-36-8 .
- Lived love: stories of the Ahl-ul-Bait. M-haditec, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939416-41-8 .
- Good stories. Sazman-Tablighat-Islami, Tehran 1996.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iran's “Good Stories for Good Children” available in Chinese
- ↑ Nominees for 1st Azar-Yazdi Awards announced
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yazdi, Mehdi Azar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | مهدی آذر یزدی; Yazdi, Mehdi-e Āzar-e |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian children's and youth author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Khorramshah |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 2009 |
| Place of death | Tehran |