The International Poetry Prize "Castello di Duino", is becoming from year to year the biggest International Poetry Competition and one of the most exciting Poetry Festival in the world entirely devoted to young poets. Planned  and organized by Gabriella and Ottavio Gruber the competition is one of the activities supported by the Volunteer Association "Poesia e Solidarietà":

The prize is organized under the patronage of UNESCO Italian national Committee, in collaboration with the Prince Carlo Alessandro della Torre e Tasso (Castello di Duino- Trieste Italia), the Publishing House Ibskos di A. Risolo (official sponsor of the competition) and  the United World College of Duino;  is open to young people of the world under 30 years of age. Participation is free. The jury is composed by poets and literary experts with different linguistic competences. The poems will be evaluated, in the mother tongue of the authors.

The poems of the winners and a selection of the best poems are published by Ibiskos Editrice Risolo (Empoli- Italy) in Italian and English version, and recorded on CD in their original languages. The poets, whose poem is not published in the book, may ask for publishing it in the Website's page "Poems & Comments". 

Poems must arrive before : 2009 December 31th (for School- collective projects : 2010 January 15th)  
a)      preferably by E-Mail  to Valera@units.it). 
b)      or by regular mail  to Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, Via Matteotti 21, 34138, Trieste (Italy).

Application Form use this link: http://www.castellodiduinopoesia.it/frameingl.htm

1400 young poets participated in the Fourth Edition of the Competition from  Italia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia , Polonia, Montenegro, Regno Unito, Danimarca, Brasile ,Croazia, Macedonia, Lituania, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta, Portogallo, Spagna, Francia, Svizzera, Germania, Turchia,  Nigeria, Camerun, Ghana, Argentina, Bolivia, Brasile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Canada, USA, Olanda, Norvegia,  Monzambico, Zimbabwe, Palestina, Israele, Guatemala, Cina, Albania, Egitto, Siria, Libano, Repubblica Democratica del Congo, Lussemburgo, Australia, Canada, Malesia, Etiopia, Kenia, Ecuador,  Czech Republic, Austria, Russian Confederation, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Georgia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Greece,India, Tibet, Giappone, Australia, Sud Africa, Singapore,  Cyprus, Cile, Cuba,  Moldavia, Ukraina, Uganda,  Messico, Venezuela, Togo, Martinica, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tunisia, Korea del sud, Vietnam, Marocco and Grenada.

The competition, originated from the Project "Poetry and Solidarity, language of the peoples" organized by Gabriella Valera Gruber since 2000, aims at  joining Poetry with Solidarity and supports from year to year different humanitarian goals; thanks to the Ibiskos Publishing House Risolo the profits of the book of the winners and selected poets are given to the Foundation Luchetta-Ota-D'Angelo-Hrovatin (www.fondazioneluchetta.org) for child war victims.