TEHRAN -- Iran and Russia have established awards to honor books on Islamic and Iranian studies published in Russian.

The first edition of the awards will be held next year and scholars will be honored in the categories of authorship, translation and correction, the secretariat of Iran Book of the Year Awards, which is one of the organizers of the awards, announced in a press release on Sunday.

Books published during 2014 and 2015 will be judged in the first edition of the awards.

The secretariat has asked scholars from around the world to send a copy or PDF version of their books to the center in Tehran as well as to the department of the Iranian studies at the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature in Moscow, which is another organizer of the awards.

The deadline for applications is the end of October and the PDF version of works must be sent to bookaward@ketab.ir.

The awards will be presented in collaboration with the Russian Foundation for Islamic Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

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