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TEHRAN -- “Hafez Seven”, a novel on the journey of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei to Fars Province in 2009, has won the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award for fiction, the Persian service of MNA reported on Monday.
It is Iran’s most lucrative award. The winner receives 110 Bahar Azadi gold coins worth over 121 million rials (over $43,000).
The title of the book written by Akbar Sahraii, refers to the code used by the Leader’s bodyguards to call him when he was the leader of Friday prayers in Tehran in 1981.
“Hafez Seven” was unveiled during a ceremony in Shiraz in July 2011.
There were many writings about the Leader’s journey and “Hafez Seven” is one of them, author Hamid Akbarpur said at the ceremony.
“The Biography”, which tells the life story of the Leader, has been nominated for the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award for biography.
Heydatollah Behbudi wrote the book, which was published by the Political Studies and Research Institute.
Seven works have also been nominated for the award in memoir section.
Winners of the Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards will be announced on Wednesday.
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