Novelist and poet Mohamed Achaâri received Friday in Rabat during a ceremony the international poetry prize Argana, awarded annually by the House of Poetry (Bayt Achîr), in partnership with the Foundation of the Deposit and Management Fund (CDG), and in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication.
Worth $ 12,000, the 15th prize was awarded to the winner before an audience composed of men and women of culture, artists, and media professionals.
Speaking on this occasion, the chairman of the jury, Najib Khodari noted that this prize was awarded to Achaâri ”in recognition of five decades of exceptional creativity in the literary and cultural fields”.
For his part, Minister of Youth, Culture, and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid congratulated the winner for this deserved recognition which represents, for him, “the crowning of a rich course of creation in the fields of poetry and literature”.
President of the House of Poetry, Morad Kadiri said that “Mohamed Achaâri is among the great poets in the world, succeeding in his first collection to stand out by his poetic vision that is not only fed by the language but draws its inspiration in the twists and turns of childhood and the details of personal experience and the vagaries of life that oscillates between the possible and the impossible”.
Director-General of the CDG Foundation, Dina Naciri also congratulated the winner, praising “his great contribution during five decades in the fields of poetry and literature and his great poetic virtuosity”.
Obviously touched, Mohamed Achaâri thanked especially the initiators and sponsors of the international prize Argana and took the opportunity to share with the audience in preview some of his poems to be published soon in a collection entitled “Des feuilles tombées vivantes” (fallen leaves alive).
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