The Cikada Prize is awarded to a poet whose work “defend the inviolability of life”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Poet Theophilus Kwek, author of Moving House , is the first Singaporean and the youngest writer to win the Cikada Prize.
He will receive a cash prize of 30,000 Swedish krona and an artwork by Swedish ceramic artist Gunilla Sundstrom in a 2024 ceremony. The prize was established to commemorate the birth centennial of Swedish Nobel literature laureate Harry Martinson and spotlights Asian poets on a global stage. In a citation for the prize, jury chair Anna Gustafsson Chen writes that Kwek is being recognised “for a poetry that is both outward-looking and locally rooted, with a combination of lyrical precision and unfailing social commitment that places it firmly in the centre of history as well as our present age”.
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