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Kheiriyeh, Rashin: - Rashin Kheiriyeh is a multi-award-winning author-illustrator, animator, and painter who has more than ninety children's books to her credit. Her books have been published in at least twelve countries and she was nominated for the 2023 & 2024 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to children's literature. She is also the recipient of a Sendak Fellowship Award, a 2009 New Horizon Award (Bologna Ragazzi), and is a six-time winner of the Bologna Book Fair Illustration competition.

Rashin Kheiriyeh is the character artist of the most popular animation series on national television in Iran called Shekarestan (Sugarland). She now lives in Washington, DC.