The Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award Selection Committee announced the list of award-winning manuscripts and authors, of the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Contest 2023, which was organized by the Printing and Publishing Department under the Ministry of Information yesterday.

Prizes will be awarded to winners in the following genres – novel, collection of short stories, collection of poems, general knowledge (arts), general knowledge (pure science and applied science), belles-lettres, Myanmar culture and fine arts, children’s literature, youth’s literature, political literature, drama, translation and English language manuscript.

The first, second and third winners of the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Contest will be honoured with K1.5 million, K1 million and K700,000 respectively.

The Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award Selection Committee is formed with 23 experienced persons, including intellectuals, intelligentsia, literary scholars and seniors from the field of printing and publication, and the committee member systematically screened and selected from 284 manuscripts submitted to the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Contest 2023 in three stages according to relevant genres.

Awardees need to contact 018 240048 – Secretary of the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award Selection Committee and 01 381449 – the Administration Department as soon as possible. They also urged the winners to send out their two coloured photos in a 5-inch-by-8-inch size and passport size each, along with the resume within one week from the date of the announcement.

Prizes will be awarded at the forthcoming National Lifetime Award for Literary Achievement, National Literary Award and Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Award presentation ceremony, which is to be held on 1 December 2024 (1st Waxing of Nadaw 1386 ME, Myanmar Literati Day). It is reported that the time and place of the ceremony will be issued later.

The committee has notified that those wishing to participate in the Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Contest 2024 will need to send out their manuscripts by 31 December 2024.

MNA/KTZH

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