On September 26, 2011, Armenia’s ambassador to Iran Grigor Arakelian honored Ahmad Nourizadeh, Iranian poet, translator and Armenologist and founder of the discipline in Persian, with a gold medal of the Armenian Culture Ministry.

The medal was awarded to Nourizadeh during a ceremony held in the presence of Armenian religious and cultural figures as well as Armenian archbishop in Iran.

Some years ago, Nourizadeh received an honorary professor degree from Yerevan State University. His Rain Apple Garden and Peter I are being reprinted for the third time in Iran. A while earlier, the third print-run of his book entitled as Armenia's History and Culture was released by Cheshmeh.

Born in 1951, Nourizadeh is one the prominent poets and translators in the present era in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He has so far published as many as 17 books, Iran Book News Agency reported.