Darya Hodaei was awarded the Best Author of children’s book in 2022. Dr. Darya Hodaei, author and Doctor of Pharmacy from Florida is a multi-talented and charismatic young author from Miami, Florida. Although she is a pharmacist by qualification, she has made a big name in the children’s book industry of the world through her inner zeal and hidden passion to write.
Darya Hodaei is distinguished among other authors as the creator of one-of-a-kind multicultural children’s books that help the young population of the world get acquainted with their ethnic roots. She authored multi-cultural books in Azerbaijani, English, Kurdish language. Focused to promote cultural diversity and multi-ethnic harmony in society, Dr. Darya Hodaei strives to introduce the children to these critical language issues in a subtle yet effective manner through her creatively drafted books.
With Darya Hodaei’s everlasting urge to make the world a better and more compassionate place for every individual, irrespective of nationality or ethnicity, she has made a positive impact through her books.
Darya Hodaei’s Life In the USA and Start to Author a Book
When Darya Hodaei was pregnant with her first child, she realized that the monolingual and mono-ethnic educational system was a root cause of her identity gap as a Turk grown up in Iran.
With her firstborn child only a few months old, she understood that living in the western society, she could never fill in the significant linguistic and knowledge gap prevalent between the literacy of her mother language and the Azerbaijani Turkic cultural background.
Even in Iran, the various educational syllabi are all created and pursued in the Persian language. There is no exposure of the new generation to Turkic material and its literary content.
So as a young mother, she started exploring through her ethnic Turkic roots and decided to gain more knowledge and learn about her language to author a book.
That is why Darya Hodaei started to write a book for learning the children’s mother language.
The EnglishAzerbaijani was Conceived By Darya Hodaei
This is an innovative and unique platform that was conceived and created by Dr. Darya Hodaei to discover and memorize new vocabulary and grammatical insights of her mother’s native language by the authored books.
She named this platform as EnglishAzerbaijani. Although she created the platform for her own self-learning by book, it became an instant success by receiving lots of support and appreciation from other Iranian Turks, who shared the same problems.
As the concept evolved, Dr. Darya Hodaei decided to make it a multi-cultural and multi-lingual platform that promoted a diverse range of cultures and aimed at helping people get accepted with their unique ethnicities in society by the authored books and other materials.
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Children’s Book Author by Darya Hodaei
With time, Darya Hodaei got more inclined towards the subject of cultural and linguistic suppression that she had to suffer in Iran.
Dissatisfied with the extent of literary-cultural content available to the young children and dismayed with the reality of losing her roots to the western way of life, she focused all her efforts on the cause of protecting young children and preserving their unique ethnic belonging.
While pursuing her Pharmacist job in the morning, she started writing and authoring children’s books with the prime aim of promoting her mother language Azerbaijani and bringing the world closer to recognizing the benefits of promoting multi-cultural harmony and ethnic diversity in society.
The List of the books by Darya Hodaei:
- Azerbaijani Turkic Alphabet And Numbers
- Which Animal Is More Useful?
- Fun Facts About Animals
- Jirtdan’s Halloween
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