Al-Oweis prize to Syrian poet and writer al-Maghout
Syria, Local, 12/22/2005

The Syrian well-Known poet and Playwright Mohammed al-Maghout has won the Poetry Prize of Sultan bin Ali al-Oweis Culture Establishment in Dubai. The prize is estimated at $ 120,000.

In a statement to the press on Tuesday, Secretary General of the Establishment Abdul Hamid Ahmad said that al-Maghout is one of those who participated in drawing the map of the Arab poetry and in developing the prose poem.

He pointed out to al-Maghout poetic, prose and drama works as consisting one coherent intellectual unit.

Al-Maghout was born in Salamiya, eastern Hama province in 1934. His first poetic collection was "Sadness in Moon Light" published in 1959.

He wrote a number of famous plays like "Tishrin Village" and Ghorba (Expatriation).

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