Amaal Fawzi, 17, who research English Literature and Inventive Writing at college, was named senior runner up within the prize for her poem, ‘Nursing Properties’. She got here second to Sawooly Li, 17, from New Zealand.
The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competitors (QCEC) is the world’s oldest worldwide colleges’ writing contest, delivered by the Royal Commonwealth Society since 1883.
Annually, entrants write on a theme that explores the Commonwealth’s values. Themes embrace the surroundings, neighborhood, inclusion, the function of youth management, and gender equality.
Born in Egypt to an Iraqi father and British mom, Amaal was raised in Lebanon, and has been writing poetry for a few years.
Her time in Lebanon shaped nearly all of her character and cultural experiences. Her poetry and prose are impressed by how she interacts with this residing within the UK.
Most of her work is anxious with tradition and identification, and it’s at all times private.
About 140,000 younger individuals, over 5,000 colleges and 1000’s of volunteer judges throughout the Commonwealth have participated within the competitors within the final decade.
This 12 months, its theme was ‘Our Commonwealth’, reflecting on Queen Elizabeth II’s seven many years of service to the Commonwealth.
They acquired 26,322 entries. The junior winner was Madeleine Wooden, 14, from Australia. The junior runner up was Maulika Pandey, 13, from India.
Extra data will be discovered on the Royal Commonwealth Society web site.
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