At this ceremony, the secretariat of the Book of the Year World Award, the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and President Rouhani gave speeches and the awards of selected winners were presented.
his year, after the primary selection of more than 2000 books in different fields of Islamic and Iranian Studies, 208 books were assessed, from which 9 books entered the final stage of evaluation.
As a side event at the International Conference of “the Thousand Year School of Shia”, some of the outstanding researchers in Iranian-Islamic studies who were the winners of the 24th World Award for Book of the Year including Josef Van Ess, Desmond Durkin Meisterernst, Gerhard Bowering, and Wolfram Kleiss were honored.
Abstract submission deadline: 06-11-2017•Final paper sending deadline: 06-12-2017 Date of conference and venue: December 2017/ Iran Book House Institute
IBNA– Call to support the translation and publication of Iranian books into foreign languages and presenting them on international markets was published by the Culture Ministry.
In order to identify and introduce valuable books on Iranian studies in the Indian subcontinent countries, the Secretariat of the World Award for Book of the Year of the I.R.I will hold the 2nd Regional Book Award ceremony for the first published books during the last two years 2015-2016. Entries must have been published in the Indian subcontinent, i.e. the southern region of Asia.
The 1st Regional Book Award ceremony was held in Moscow in the presence of Russian scientific figures on Islamic and Iranian studies, Iranian scholars, and cultural officials of Iran. Award presentation and honoring ceremony for the winners of the 1st contest for “Islamic-Iranian Book of the Year” in Russian speaking countries was held in the amphitheater hall of Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature (No. 1, Nikoloyamskaya St., Moscow) on December 1st, 2016.
In order to identify and introduce valuable books on Iranian and Islamic studies in the Russian-speaking countries, the Secretariat of the World Award for Book of the Year of the I.R.I will hold the 1st Triennial Regional Book Award ceremony for the first published books in Russian language during the last two years 2014-2015. Entries must have been published in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States.