TEHRAN -- Octogenarian Iranian children’s writer Medhi Azar Yazdi has recently left his homeland Yazd to live with his adopted son in Karaj, a suburb of Tehran.

Nowadays, he cannot fend for himself, MNA reported on Thursday.
Once last year, he came to Karaj to stay with his adopted son, however he returned to Yazd several months after he missed his homeland.
Azar Yazdi has never married. Once, when he was asked the reason for this he joked, “I could not live with a crazy woman, and if she was a wise woman, she could never live with me!”
He is best known for his serial book “Good Stories for Good Children”, which won a UNESCO prize in 1966 and was selected as Iran’s best book of the year in 1967.
He is also author of “Adam”, which was chosen as Iran’s book of the year in 1968.
His “The Naughty Cat” and “The Playful Cat” are awaiting publication, although his “Simple Stories,” “Poetry of Sugar and Honey,” and “Masnavi of Good Children,” which were released over the past few years, have not been well received.
Once, saying that that life owes him something, he argued, “Frequently, I have done nothing but work. I have always economized and have had a difficult time. I have never eaten well, except at parties or elsewhere and I have never wore expensive clothes. Some people consider me to be stingy because of my frugal ways, but when I have no income I’m forced to economize. Thank God, that I have never done evil and have never had a bad reputation.”