Bulgarian Prisoner Wins School Poetry Contest

Society | May 25, 2007, Friday // 00:00

An inmate from the prison in the Bulgarian town of Vratsa won the big prize in the "Emiliya Alexandrova" poetry competition.

The winner, and unsuspected poet, Mihail Mihailov, was awarded for his "Alphabet of Love" poem.

"The competition is anonymous; I did not know who the winner was until the very end," the chairman of the jury Krasimir Danov said.

The interesting thing is that the poetry competition is held in the schools in the Vratsa region, and Mihailov submitted his works, because he is now in the eighth grade in the prison school. He submitted five poems, which turned out to be real masterpieces and were the best ones among the poems of the 62 other contestants.

Sadly, Mihailov cannot take his prize personally as he is still behind bars, so he will receive with from his literature teacher.

The "Emiliya Alexandrova" poetry competition was founded 11 years ago. Alexandrova, being a literature teacher through all her career, left BGN 50,000 to the Vratsa Municipality for cultural initiatives.

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