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The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) has received 1,498 poems for participation in the Katara Prize for Prophet’s Poet (Peace Be Upon Him) which activities will be organised from September 19 to 24, 2021.
Katara General Manager Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti said the number of poets participating in the fifth edition of the Katara Prize for Prophet’s Poet (Peace Be Upon Him) is the largest since the award was launched in 2016, with an increase of 29 percent over the fourth edition, noting that the prize committee received 1,358 poems in the classical category and 140 poems in Al Nabati poetry category.
He pointed out that the largest participation in the current edition was from Egypt and Sudan, with 509 poems, followed by participants from the Arab Maghreb countries with 378 poems, participants from of the Levant and Iraq with 333 poems, and participants from the Arab Gulf states with 259 poems, while 19 submissions were received from non-Arab countries.
He said the prize achieved widespread popularity from poets and interested people due to the nobility of its objectives, as it emphasises the importance of poetry in the unity of the Islamic and Arab nation.
General Supervisor of the Katara Prize for Prophet’s Poet (Peace Be Upon Him) Khaled Abdul Rahim Al Sayed said the Gulf participations witnessed a qualitative increase, especially in Al Nabati poetry category with 94 entries of the total 140 submissions in the category.
The competition is divided into two categories - Al Nabati poetry, a variant of classical poetry that is popular in the Arabian Peninsula, and classical poetry.
The award carries cash prizes worth a total of QR4.2m. The first prize winner in each category will take home a cash prize of QR1m while winners of the second and third places will each receive QR700,000 and QR400,000, respectively. The 30 shortlisted poems that enter the preliminary round will be published in an annual book which will also be made available in CD format.
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23/02/2021
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