Biography

Maneli Manouchehri has a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and a master’s degree in illustration. She has contributed illustrations to over thirty book projects, and participated in numerous illustration, painting, and print-making exhibitions in Iran, Italy, Georgia, Slovakia, France, Germany, Australia and Denmark.  She lectures and teaches at several art institutes and universities. She has received awards, prizes and certificates of honor from Children’s Book Council (CBC), Iranian Literary Masterpieces Illustration Festival, Educational Books Illustration Festival and etc. She has also received certificate of Honour for illustration “Zal-O Simorgh” from  IBBY. She lives in Tehran, Iran.