Aida Haghnejad
Writer and Translator
Aida Haghnejad is a writer and translator born in Iran and still living in Iran. She studied “dramatic literature” at Tehran University. She has won awards for her research and essays in Iranian dramatic literature, and one of her plays directed by Mehdi Saffari entered the Fajr festival. After graduation, she started working as a copywriter, writing scenarios every day. But that wasn’t enough for her. She needed a more artistic path. So, in 2018, she collaborated with children’s and young adult publications and translated three children’s novels for the Portheghal publication. After that, she started writing her own book, a trilogy about the relationship between children and robots. This trilogy got accepted by the Hoopa publication. After that, she began writing and translating for children more seriously and collaborated with different children’s and young adult magazines and publishing houses. In 2023, Aida and her friend Aida started a podcast named “Radio Rad.” Their podcast is about famous writers and their most important books that have been rejected at first but are now known as literary masterpieces.
