[1] Established in 2000,[2] the award is sponsored by the non-profit Golshiri Foundation.
[1] The award focuses on modern contemporary Iranian literature.
It is named in honor of Hooshang Golshiri, one of the most distinguished pioneers of Iranian modern fiction, who died in 2000.
Eligible works are novels and collections of short stories published in Persian in Iran for the first time in that particular year.
Iranian authors living outside the country but who publish in Iran are eligible.