mid-June are invited to apply for the Balatonfüred Salvatore Quasimodo poetry competition
Applications can be submitted to the 27th Balatonfüred Salvatore Quasimodo poetry competition until 14 June. The award ceremony will be held in September in the city of Lake Balaton - MTI informed the race organizers.
László Cserép said that applicants can apply with two unpublished works in Hungarian that have not won prizes in previous literary competitions.
In the history of the poetry competition so far, about ten thousand entries have been received, among others Győző Határ, György Faludy, Ottó Orbán, Ágnes Gergely, János Marno, Tibor Zalán and Krisztina Tóth, among others, he noted.
This year's award ceremony and international meeting of poets will be held on September 6 in Balatonfüred, the author of the first-prize poem will receive a bronze plaque depicting Salvatore Quasimodo and a cash prize.
In parallel with the poetry competition, the Writers' Union and the Salvatore Quasimodo Foundation in Balatonfüred are also announcing the 15th Bertha Bulcsú Memorial Award as an invitational application. The invited writers will prepare literary publications about the natural and cultural values of Lake Balaton, some of which will be recited together with the prize-winning poems at the gala evening in September, the organizer said. Salvatore Quasimodo, an Italian poet, visited Balatonfüred in 1961, planted a memorial tree on the Tagore Promenade to commemorate his recovery, and expressed his feelings for the Balaton landscape in a poem. Since 1992, the Quasimodo international poetry competition and poetry meeting have been organized in his honor every year.
710 total views, 1 today
710 total views, 1 today
