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july 29, 2015 - Montegrappa

Montegrappa - The Fereshteh Award

Montegrappa and Bidar Group are proud to have been the sponsor of a cultural writing competition held by Fereshteh (Angel) Award. The closing ceremony was held on June 12th, 2015 in Tehran's Fereshteh Book City in presence of distinctive members of the press and media. The short stories submitted were selected by distinguished members of the Selection Committee: Kambouzia Partovi , Mohammad Charmshir, Ebrahim Haghighi, Marjan Shir-Mohammadi, Hossein Alizadeh, Fatemeh Motamed Aria, Mahsa Mohebali. The selected stories were judged by the group of three jurors: Mr. Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi, Ms. Lili Golestan and Mostafa Mastoor. Each member, of both selection and jury committee, is a prominent and culturally influential individual within the Persian cultural society. They all received a prestigious Montegrappa pen at the occasion of the closing ceremony. Naturally, the writers of the first three selected stories were just as well gifted with a Montegrappa pen. A special laudation was made to the renowned modern Persian poet Mr. Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi, whose work has been compared to French and American 20th Century surrealism poetry. Mr. Ahmadi was awarded with a fountain pen from the Montegrappa's limited Khalil Gibran edition. Bidar Group, Montegrappa's sole distributor in Iran, through its 50 years of operation, is proud to have been Iran's foremost "Patrons of the Art" supporter and cultural activities main ambassador.