The 8th Book Criticism Festival has 50 more journals added to the assessed periodicals and winners are selected from 217 different journals, said Ali Shojai Saeen managing director of Iran Book House during the closing ceremony of the 8th Book Criticism Festival.

IBNA: During the concluding ceremony held yesterday evening, Kavoos Hassanli stated that contemporary literary criticism of Iran is somehow influenced by the west and has neglected its own critical background. 

Then Ali Ojabi, secretary of Book Criticism Festival Said the future is actually based on the past and thought is hereditary, that is, it will be inherited from one generation to the other and criticism plays a key role in this regard. 

The session was then followed with awarding the winners, including: 

A. Generalities
'Long Distance to Culture', Saleh Tabatabaei, Generalities Book of the Month, No. 157
 
B. Philosophy
"Divine Divinity and Humanist Divinity: a methodological criticism", Seyed Hassan Eslami, Haft Aseman, No. 45 

C. Persian Literature
"A survey of three non-Iranian books on history of Persian literature", Kavoos Hassanli and Mostafa Sedighi, Gohar-e-Guya, No. 15 

"Necessity to revise Neyshabouri's Qesas Al-Anbia", Akram Haji Seyd Aghayi, Gozaresh-e-Miras, No. 21 

D. Arabic Literature
"Necessity to Revise Arabic Terms of Dehkhoda's Amsal-va-Hekam", Motaleat-e-Zabani Balaqi, No. 1 

E. Linguistics
"Some Vocabulary for Persian Literature", Dastour, No. 6 

F. Fiction
"Qara Qeitas 1 & 2 & 3", Farkhondeh Haghsheno, Habib Ghanipoor Collection, No 7 

G. Poetry
"Love should have rather taken place than experienced", Seyyed Ali Mir-Afzali, Alef, No. 41 

H. History/Geography
"Taqvim Altarikh va Kashfolzonun Chalabi 1 & 2", Nameh Farhangestan, No 1&2 

"Untold History of Contemporary Azerbaijan", Rahim Nikbakht, History-Geography Book of the Month, No. 150 

I. Science and Technology
"History of Almost Everthing", Saeid Layan, Jahan-e-Ketab, No 258-259

Also the praiseworthy winners of the 8th Book Criticism Festival are: 

1. Religion
- Islam : "Moalef Tabsara Al-avam", Ayatollah Seyyed Mousa Shobeiri Zanjani 

- Quran: "Contemplation over Introduction and Survey of Quranic Translations", Hossein Ostadvali 

- Kalam: "History of Kalam or Kalam Historiography?", Malek Shojai Joshaghani 

2. Political Sciences
"A Criticism of Hassan Hanafi's Analysis of Contemporary Movements and Crises of Egypt and the World of Islam", Nasrollah Aqajani 

3. Art
"150 Valuable Chromosomes", Reza Kouchakzadeh 

4. Architecture
"A Criticism of the book 'Islam, Art and Architecture'," Saleh Tabatabei 

5. Children and Young Adults (Poetry)
"A Reading of Restless for the Sea", Nayereh Sadat Hashemi 

Moreover the special prize for electronic articles was given to "Night Shift" penned by Ziaeddin Vazifeh Shoja and published in 'Waltz E-Journal.

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