The Department of Education (Central Tibetan Administration) and TibetWrites in collaboration with the ThunderHorse Media is happy to announce the results of the poetry competition.
The judges:
- Naga Sangye Tendar, scholar & Head of the Publication Department at LTWA
- Tenzin Dickie, writer & editor of Old Demons New Deities: 21 Tibetan Short Stories
- Jane Perkins, writer & former editor at The Straits Times
- Tenzing Rigdol, artist/poet and the founder of Studio’59
Winners:
- SCHOOL LEVEL:
- Tibetan Section
- Dong Ngodup (Class XII, Sherab Gatsel Lobling;)
- Phuntsok Dolma (Class XII, STS Bylakkupe)
- English Section
- Thinley Choezom (Class XII A, TCV School Gopalpur.)
- Tenzin Pema (Class X, Lower TCV School)
- COLLEGE LEVEL
- Tibetan Section
- Tenzin Choedon (Punjab University)
- Tenzin Choesang (Jyoti Nivas College)
- English Section
- Ngawang Norbu (JNU Delhi)
- Phurpa Gyal (CIHTS Sarnath)
The winners will receive prize money of Five Thousand Indian Rupees each. The winners will be either individually contacted by email or through their respective schools by TibetWrites.
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who submitted poems for the competition. Blackneck Books, an imprint of TibetWrites, and ThunderHorse Media will publish the winning poems and the best entries in a bi-lingual book, which will be distributed in the Tibetan schools.