2021 • Top winner: (no winner) • Short story: (no winner) • Honorable mentions: “Unhappy Hour” by Mohammad-Esmaeil Hajalian and “Mad Saint” by Ahmadreza Amiri-Samani • Novel: (no winner) • Honorable mentions: “Without Father’s Name” by Seyyed Meisam Musavian and “Sad Moon, Red Moon” by Reza Julai • Literary criticism: (no winner) • Honorable mention: “Albert Camus in Iran” co-written by Mohammadreza Farsian and Fatemeh Qaderi • Documentation and historiography: • (joint winner) Meisam Amiri, “Fascinating Grief” • (joint winner) Hedayatollah Behbudi, “A Man Named Reza Who Was Then Called Reza Khan”,
2008 For works published in 2005-2006. • Top winner:
(no winner) • Short story: "Killing Dragons",
Yusef Alikhani • Novel:
The Rule of the Game,
Firuz Zanuzi Jalali • Literary criticism:
The Mirror’s Rite, "
Hossein-Ali Qobadi" • Documentation and historiography:
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) from Existence to Extinction, by the Political Studies and Research Institute.
2009 • Top winner:
(no winner) • Novel:
Paytakht Hall,
Mohammad-Ali Gudni, and
Namira ('Immortal'),
Sadegh Karamyar (co-winners) • Literary criticism:
Language of Mysticism,
Alireza Fuladi, and
Theater of Myths,
Naghmeh Samini (co-winners) • Documentation and historiography: ''
One Woman's War: Da (Mother)'',
Seyyedeh Azam Hosseini 2010 • Top winner:
(no winner) 2011 • Top winner:
(no winner) • Literary criticism:
Rumi-Like on the Silent Secrets by
Ali Mohammadi Asiabadi and
Crimson Wisdom by
Taqi Purnamdarian • Memoir:
Noureddin, Son of Iran by
Masumeh Sepehri • Biography: ''The Biography entitled '
Alef-Laam Khomeini''' by
Hedayatollah Behbudi Kalhori • Fiction:
Hafez Seven by
Akbar Sahraei 2013 • No winner in any categories. However, works were said to be "praiseworthy" for
Mahmoud Fotouhi,
Sohrab Yazdani,
Safaoding Tabraeian and
Amir Razagh Zadeh.
2014 2015 • No works in the categories of short story, literary criticism, or documentation were "deemed worthy". • Novel:
Fall Is the Last Season by
Nasim Marashi and
The Well-Behaved Girl by
Shahriar Abbasi shared the Novel prize.
2016 :Each winner received 10 Bahar Azadi gold coins. • Novel:
Barren by
Mohammadreza Bairami 2017 • Novel: TBD
2018 • Novel: رهش ("Salvation") by
Reza Amirkhani ==See also==