Lê Hương chats with celebrated poet Mai Văn Phấn, who has won four international prizes this year. Poet Mai Văn Phấn. Photo courtesy of the poet You recently won poetry awards at annual festivals in Macedonia and Russia. Could you tell us more about the events and what led you to these honours? The organising boards of the Aco Karamanov in North Macedonia and the Literature Awards in Russia invited me to submit works to the events. The “Aco Karamanov Poetry Meetings” takes the name of Macedonian poet and partisan Aco Karamanov (1927-1944), who is considered one the founders of Macedonian contemporary literature. He was also a great patriot, fighting against German facism in the Second World War. Every year his hometown of Radovis holds a poetry festival in his honour. The first event was organised in 1967. In more recent years, the event has been co-organised by the … [Read more...] about Let feelings guide you: prize-winning poet