The 15th International Storytelling Festival wrapped up on January 29.

IBNA: According to the public relations office of the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents, the panel of judges for the festival announced the following as the event's winners: Solmaz Sadegh Zadeh from Ardebil, Asiyeh Rahmati from Khuzestan, and Roghiyeh Doostfatemiha from Yazd. The narrators were categorized in the Sacred Defense section of the festival who were honored with awards in the closing ceremony of the festival.

The panel of judges was made up of figures like Mostafa Rahmandoust, Fatemeh Jafarzadeh, Morti Benata, Masoumeh Bagheri and Maryam Mahdavi.

In the section of Four Women of Religions, Narges Romina from Bushehr was lauded as the best storyteller.

Moreover, among cultural tutors the following were praised: Somayeh Ashab Sohof from Yazd, Mohammad Javad Alimardani from Fars, Shima Samadi from Kurdistan, Niki Ghobadi from Gilan, Golnaz Kiani from Isfahan, and Farzaneh Ghasemi from Yazd. Besides, Zahra Fatemi from Sistan and Balouchestan was selected as the best storyteller in the arts-literature section of the gala.

In the international section of the event which considered freelance, former and foreign narrators, Leila Ebrahimi from Ghazvin, Elham Darabi from Tehran, Georgia Elna Pouyan from Romania, Dr Vajupa Tousa from Thailand and Nahed Farahat from Labanon were the five best storytellers of the section.

Josephe Juju from Canada and Abraham Ghehregani from western Azerbaijan were praised during the ceremony.

The festival was arranged in Urmia and took three days to finish.

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