Awards
The first award Hoda Hadadi received was the Audience Award from Soroush Nojavan Magazine for her first published story. Her first international award was an Encouragement prize from the Noma Concours of Japan 2002 for illustrating the book “Lullaby Tale” written by M. Azad and published by Mohajer. Since then, Hoda has succeeded in receiving many significant awards in Iran and worldwide. You can see some of her major awards here:
- 2022 Honour certification of IBBY international (Board of books for young people) For the book: (Bacheha Bahar), Malaysia
- 2021 and 2020 The Little Black Fish Medal for Best Illustrator (The mother), Also (Bacheha Bahar), Children’s Book Council (IBBY of Iran)
- 2020, selected for The White Raven list of International youth Library of Munich (I’ll sow my hands in the garden)- Germany
- 2018, Gold Medal for Best Picture Book (Drummer Girl), International Book Award, USA
- 2017, Gold Medal for Best Illustrator (Drummer Girl), Literacy Classics Award, USA
- 2017, Gold Medal for Best Illustrator (Drummer Girl), Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, USA
- 2015, Best Arabic Books Award for Children (صاروخ الی الفضا, Spaceship towards Outer Space), Bahrain
- 2012, Appreciation Certificate of Oslo International Rumi Festival, Norway
- 2010, Winner of New Horizons of Bologna Illustration Festival for writing and illustrating the book (Two Friends), Italy
- 2007, Grand Prix of Belgrade Illustration Festival (Two Friends), Serbia
- 2008, The Third Prize of Teatro Illustration Festival, Italy
- 2008 and 2002 &, Noma Encouragement Prize (The Story of Lullaby, Sara, Apple Jam and River), Japan
- 2007, Golden Plaque of BIB, Bratislava (If I Were a Pilot & With Rain Again), Slovakia
- 2005, Second Prize of Katha Literature Festival (Smiling Crocodile- Not published), India
- 2005, First Prize of Kanoon Book Festival (multiple artworks), Iran
Fellowship
In 2023, Hoda Hadadi received a fellowship from the International Munich youth Library, where she studied female narratives in the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales.
She was eager to find the original European fairy tales that were narrated by women. but have been masculinized by male writers. This research starts in Munich, but it’s not finished there and is still being developed to be presented as an article in 2026.