INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Saturday.Writer Ali-Asghar Seyyedabadi, illustrator Alireza Golduzian and reading promoter Nader Musavi alongside nominees from around the
promoters.He has been picked for 33 years of outstanding and sustainable activities as a reading promoter, creative and innovative ideation,
designing and implementation of national and regional plans for reading and his efforts for establishing village libraries and bookstores,
years of intense, sustainable cultural activity for Afghan refugee children and academic research on educational plans for refugee children
He has also authored books promoting refugee children to maintain their connection with their homeland
He also travels across Iran every year to run reading programs in over 350 schools for Afghan migrant children
established in 2002 by the Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs to commemorate Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren and to promote
the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
The candidates are authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters.The twelve-member jury has the challenging but pleasant
Musavi for the 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.MMS/YAW
