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Dallas, Texas – 12/21/2024. Mundus Artium Press, housed at the University of Texas at Dallas, proudly announces the winners of its prestigious literary awards for 2025. These awards, which honor outstanding contributions to the literary arts, highlight the enduring power of the written word to shape and transform human civilization.
The Mundus Artium Prize for Literature
The 2025 Mundus Artium Prize for Literature is awarded to Khosiat Rustam, an acclaimed poet from Uzbekistan. This distinguished prize celebrates Rustam’s lifetime achievements in the literary arts, showcasing her profound capacity to weave words into a prophetic and magnanimous vision of human civilization. Her work, which reflects the spirit of the Mundus Artium journal’s mission to unite a worldwide community of literary artistry, offers a timeless testament to humanity’s shared evolution and the enduring power of creativity to counter division and injustice.
The Babel Prize for Literature
The 2024 Babel Prize for Literature is presented to Kooseul Kim, a South Korean translator and writer whose work has achieved groundbreaking strides in crossing cultural and linguistic barriers. Kim’s literary contributions dismantle the ancient metaphorical tower of linguistic isolation, embodying the spirit of interconnectedness through poetry, translation, and academic works. Her remarkable ability to bridge disparate worlds through her craft serves as a beacon of hope for global unity and literary communication.
The Frederick Turner Prize
The 2025 Frederick Turner Prize is awarded to David Rothman, a poet from the United States whose work seamlessly marries prophetic insight, formal beauty, and public resonance. Rothman’s poetry reflects the values of the prize’s namesake, Frederick Turner, emphasizing the interplay of beauty and moral depth as intrinsic to the human experience. Through his mastery of form and content, Rothman contributes to a vision of world classicism that seeks to redeem the complexities of the human condition with grace and wisdom.
The Gjenima Prize for Literature
The decision for the 2025 Gjenima Prize, Mundus Artium Press’s most significant accolade, remains pending. Following a tied vote among the 24-member selection committee, a secondary voting process will take place in the coming months. The Gjenima Prize honors authors whose literary achievements have catalyzed pivotal perspectives, shaping history and fostering a greater understanding of the human spirit. A separate announcement will follow as soon as the committee reaches a resolution.
Mundus Artium Press congratulates this year’s winners for their extraordinary contributions to the literary arts. Their work exemplifies the power of literature to inspire, unify, and elevate human experience. For further inquiries, please visit Mundus Artium Press: www.mundusartiumpress.us