A Syrian Storyteller wins the AFRA Foundation for Studies and Research Award in Morocco

Syrian storyteller, Khader Al Maghout, won the short story award in the annual international competition of AFRA Foundation for Studies and Research in Morocco, for his collection of stories entitled ” Democratic Party”.

About winning the competition, the storyteller Al Maghout said in a statement to SANA: I submitted a manuscript for a short story collection entitled ”Democratic Party” which included about 60 very short stories and some short stories, all of which belong to satirical literature. I was lucky that my  collection won this year’s competition award for the short and the very short story category.

Al Maghout explained that the AFRA Foundation for Studies and Research in Morocco is interested in selecting creative works in all fields of literature, culture, and arts. The foundation holds an annual international competition to receive entries in all of those fields, so that one participant for each literary and artistic genre wins a financial prize in addition to printing the work, and sending more than 50 copies to the winning writer.

The storyteller Khade Al Maghout, was born in the city of Salamiyah in 1956. He is a writer and a journalist in many Syrian newspapers and magazines. He has published several collections of stories