Fifth Annual Bita Prize For Literature To Mr Houshang Seyhoun

The Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters, with Stanford's Iranian Studies Program, presented the Bita Prize for Literature on Thursday, November 29th, 2012, to Mr. Houshang Seyhoun. Houshang Seyoun is a renowned artist and architect known for his significant contributions to a new aesthetic of Iranian modernity and urban modernism. Born in Tehran in 1920, he received a degree in architecture from Tehran's Honarkadeh college (house of the arts). Seyoun won numerous awards and competitions in his youth that testify to his creative brilliance, including the Iranian Association of Historic Monuments competition to design a memorial for the poet Ferdowsi. Finishing his studies at Honarkadeh, where he studied under Andre Godard, Seyoun was selected as the recipient of a French government scholarship to study art in Paris.