Tehran Times: Youth Poetry Book of the Year announced winners during a ceremony at the Iranian Artists Forum (IAF) on Monday. The winners received Qeisar Aminpur Awards which are named after the contemporary poet Qeisar Aminpur after his death in 2007. “On Memory of Consanguineous Ringdove” by Ali Abbasnejad won the award in the Classic Category.
In the Blank Verse Category, Roja Roshankar’s “Dying in Mother Tongue” was awarded as the best collection The ceremony was attended by great literati including Shams Langarudi, Ali Bbabachahi, Farzan Sojudi, Mostafa Rahamandust and Enayat Samiei and the winners read some of their poems for the audience.
A total of 154 poems were received by the secretariat of the event out of which 69 collections were composed in classic style, poet Mohammadreza Malekian, who is member of IAF board of directors, mentioned during the ceremony.
Collections by Javad Zehtab, Monireh Hosseini, Pantea Safaii, Roja Chamankar, Ali Abbasnejad, Hajar Farhadi, and Hamed Rahmati comprised the short list of the event. Speaking at the ceremony, Abdolmalekian advised the winners to consider their success at the event as a passage to another stages rather than an achievement.
Poets Mohammad-Ali Bahmani and Esmaeil Amini judged the poems in Classic Category and Shams Langerudi, Enayat Samiei and Farzan Sojudi judged the received works in the Blank Verse Category.