The best Iranian Writers’ series consists of 30 books of which 21 have been published. The series which is a sort of an encyclopedia of noted Iranian writers and illustrators, opens with brief biographies and reviews on their works.

Davod Ghaffar-zadegan was born in 1959, Ardebil, Iran. Using different types and styles of writing, he creates such moods and believable characters whose stories get readers engaged from the very beginning. Nature, human relations and miseries have been his main focus in a successful writing career spanning more than two decades. He has won numerous significant awards, namely the Twenty-Year Fictional Literature Award and the Golden Medal of the Children’s Literature Festival (the Children’s Writers’ Association) as one of the best Iranian writers in the last two decades. His “Fortune Told in Blood” was published at the University of Texas. Some of his short stories have been translated into various languages.