page_title: Abdulkarim Baderkhan
section_title: Beginning and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Abdulkarim Baderkhan / Poetry / Beginning and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Syrian poet Abdulkrim Baderkhan celebrating his winning of "Sharja Award for Arab Creativeness" in Sharja, UAE - April 2014. العربية: الشاعر السوري عبد الكريم بدرخان في حفل توزيع :جائزة الشارقة للإبداع العربي"، الشارقة، الإمارات العربية المتحدة. نيسان/أبريل 2014.
context_page_description: Abdulkarim Baderkhan is a Syrian poet, translator and critic. He is considered one of the most promising poets and translators in the Arab world. Starting his career in February 2006, he published three poetry collections, and translated seven books from English into Arabic. Also, he published articles, critical studies and translations in several Arabic newspapers and magazines.
context_section_description: Baderkhan published a poem for the first time in “Al-Thawra” newspaper in February 2006. Then, his poems were welcomed by most editors and publishers in Syria.
  In 2008, he participated in the “Festival of Young Poets” which was held in Homs and won the first place. Then, he won five poetry awards in 2009: “Arab Writers Union Award”, “National Union of Syrian Students Award”, “Spring of Literature Award”, “Golan Award” and “Okaz Award”. In 2014, he was awarded “Al-Sharja Award for Arab Creativeness” (Arabic: جائزة الشارقة للإبداع العربي) which is considered one of the most important literary awards in the Arab world, for his first poetry collection: “Funeral of The Bride” (Arabic: جنازة العروس).
caption: Syrian poet Abdulkrim Baderkhan celebrating his winning of "Sharja Award for Arab Creativeness" in Sharja, UAE - April 2014.
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