Habib Ahmadzadeh (Persian: حبیب احمدزاده) is an

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and

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, born in 1963 in

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. The

Iran–Iraq War The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for nearly eight years, unti ...

features heavily in his work, with observations of human existence and human interactions in wartime informed by his own wartime service. During the war, he rose from being a teenage volunteer

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militiaman to becoming a captain in the regular army. He earned a BA in Dramatic Literature from Tehran Art University and a Ph.D. in Art Research from Tarbiat Modares University.

Career

In 1998, he began his career in cinema as a script editor with

Ebrahim Hatamikia Ebrahim Hatamikia (; born 23 September 1961) is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and actor. Hatamikia is a prolific proponent of films depicting the Iran–Iraq War's impact on Iran. His films are considered some of the be ...

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, and in 2007, he received the Iranian House of Cinema award for best screenplay for ''The Night Bus''. He has filmed a number of documentaries over his career, the most recent of which, ''The Outstanding Statue in the World'', earned the Tehran Cinema Verite Festival prize for best documentary in 2012. Habib Ahmadzadeh has also been an influential youth advocate in Iran.

Works

* '' A City Under Siege: Tales of the Iran–Iraq War''(Bibliotheca Iranica Persian Fiction in Translation Series), 2010 * Chess with the Doomsday Machine, 2008 * *

Awards and recognition

Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards The Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award is an Iranian literary award presented yearly since 2008. Every year, an award is given to the best Iranian authors on the birthday of the renowned Persian writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad. The top winner receives 110 Ba ...

,2020; ''Forty Years of Sacred Defense Fiction'', a category intended to recognize the authors of the most important war stories written during the last four decades. * ''Iranian House of Cinema Award'' * ''Tehran Cinema Verite Festival'' prize for best documentary, 2012 * Jury

Fajr International Film Festival Iran's annual Fajr International Film Festival (), or Fajr Film Festival (little: FIFF; ), has been held every February in Tehran since 1983. The festival is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. It takes place on the anni ...

, 2018

References

External links/references

Habib Ahmadzadeh at IMDb

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Career

Works

Awards and recognition

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