A Human Resource Development Specialist and an ADR Practitioner, Daniel Owusu-Koranteng, has been honoured with the ‘Readers Choice Best Poet Award for 2024.’
The Readers Choice Best Poet Award was sponsored by the Africa Must Read Foundation which supports the development of reading culture among the youth.
The award was in recognition of Mr Owusu-Koranteng’s published poetry book titled, “The Wanderer’s Poems-An Anthology of Twenty-Five Poems.”
The award ceremony, which took place at the Aburi Botanical Gardens on 24th March, 2024, also saw the launch of the READ A-THON activities being undertaken by the renowned Reading Advocate, Veronica Obeng.
The “ Wanderer’s Poems-An anthology of Twenty-Five Poems” is expected to be one of the collection of books to be read by Veronica Obeng in the ongoing READ A-THON programme at Aburi Botanical Gardens.
This is the second time a book published by Mr Owusu-Koranteng, who is also a writer, a poet and an Industrial Relations Practitioner, has received a prestigious award.
In the first award, “Paying My Debt-An Autobiography” won the first prize in the Creative Non-Fiction (Kofi Awoonor) Category at the fifth Literary Awards of the Ghana Association of Writers (GAW) on 16th December, 2021.
The “Paying My Debt- An Autobiography” is one of the collection of books to be read in the on-going READ A-THON programme at Aburi Botanical Gardens.
