Hoda Hadadi

Hoda Hadadi  (February 2, 1977 Tehran) is an Iranian illustrator, author and poet. Her literary and visual works often support eco-feminism, featuring women as the narrators and heroes of their life stories. She delves into the lost narrators or forgotten narratives of women and their relationship with nature. She is particularly known for her collage technique in her visual artworks, especially her use of transparent silk paper.

Kooti Kooti (in Farsi  کوتی کوتی ) is a popular character among Iranian children who is a blue centipede was created with blue paper and illustrated by her.

Biography
Hadadi was three years old at the start of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and when she was five, the Iran-Iraq War began, lasting for eight years. Her drawings featured only girls, women, and nature, with no trace of war or ideology. At the age of ten, she started writing poems inspired by Ferdowsi's Shahnameh (The Book of Kings). Her professional career began at the age of nineteen with publications in children's magazines. To date, many books have been published by her in Iran, the United States Denmark,  and France.

Awards
In 2018, Hadadi received five stars from the Danish newspaper Politiken for writing and illustrating the book "The Mountain That Wanted to Travel" (Bjerget der ville rejse).


 * 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
 * 2010, Winner of New Horizons of Bologna for Writing and Illustrating the book (Two Friends), Italy
 * 2007, Grand Prix of Belgrade (Two Friends), Serbia
 * 2007, Golden Plaque of BIB, Bratislava (If I Were a Pilot & With Rain Again), Slovakia
 * 2005, Second Prize of Katha (Smiling Crocodile- Not published), India