page_title: Houshang Moradi Kermani
hierarchical_section_title: Houshang Moradi Kermani
caption_attribution_description: English: Meeting of Kerman in the course of history - Hafez Hall, Milad Tower (3) (Cropped on Moradi Kermani)
context_page_description: Houshang Moradi Kermani is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
  Moradi Kermani was born in Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, and was educated in Sirch, Kerman, and Tehran.
  Several Iranian movies and TV series have been made based on his books. In 2006, Dariush Mehrjui directed Mehman-e Maman based on Moradi Kermani's novel with the same title.
  Some of Moradi Kermani's books have been translated into English, Esperanto, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, and Armenian. His auto-biography was published by Moin Publishers in 2005, entitled "You're No Stranger Here".
  He has won the Hans Christian Andersen, Honorary diploma and University of San Francisco book of the year.
  Houshang Moradi Kermani is a 2018 candidate for the Astrid Lindgren award.
context_section_description: Houshang Moradi Kermani (Persian: هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی‎, also Romanized as "Hūshang Morādi-e Kermāni"; born 7 September 1944 at Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, Iran) is an Iranian writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. He was a finalist in 2014 for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
  Moradi Kermani was born in Sirch, a village in Kerman Province, and was educated in Sirch, Kerman, and Tehran.
  Several Iranian movies and TV series have been made based on his books. In 2006, Dariush Mehrjui directed Mehman-e Maman based on Moradi Kermani's novel with the same title.
  Some of Moradi Kermani's books have been translated into English, Esperanto, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, and Armenian. His auto-biography was published by Moin Publishers in 2005, entitled "You're No Stranger Here" (Shoma ke gharibe nistid).
  He has won  the Hans Christian Andersen, Honorary diploma (1992) and University of San Francisco book of the year (2000).
  Houshang Moradi Kermani is a 2018 candidate for the Astrid Lindgren award.
caption: Moradi Kermani in the conference of Kerman in the course of history , Tehran, 30 December 2011.
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