According to Mehr News Agency the winners of the Sacred Defense Book of the Year awards were announced during a ceremony at Tehran’s Art Bureau On Tuesday evening. This is the 12th edition of the event, which is annually held by the Foundation for the Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Works to honor writers of books on the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, which is known as the Sacred Defense in Iran. Following is a list of main prize winners in various categories: Autographed Memoirs:“I Wrote to Remain” by Mohsen Kazemi won the first prize and “The Lonely Roads of the War” by Mohsen Motalq and “The Epic of Majid” by Majid Arabzadeh were winners of the second and third prizes respectively.Verbal Memoirs: “Camp One” compiled by Asghar Kazemi won the first prize. “Wavering in Chain” compiled by Morteza Soltani and “The Last Shot” shared third prize and no work was awarded the second prize.War and Biographies:
“The Noble Sheikh” compiled by Javad Kamvar won the first prize but no second or third prize was awarded.

Military Research :Gol-Ali Babaii won third prize for “Mutual Blow” but no first or second prize was given. {comments}