Winners of 2nd Ahmed Shawky International Prize for Poetic Creativity to be announced on March 21

CAIRO – 18 March 2021: Winners of the 2nd Ahmed Shawky International Prize for Poetic Creativity 2021 will be announced on the International Poetry Day, which is held annually on March 21.

The award’s value is LE 100,000 for each winner and a bronze statue of Ahmed Shawky designed especially for this occasion.

The award's board of trustees consists of five to seven members, who are top critics and poets, is valid for three years, and is headed by the president of the General Syndicate of the Egyptian Writers Union.

Applying for the award starts in October of every year. The winner receives the majority of the votes of the Board of Trustees