Muscat: The Saudi poet, Prince Badr bin Abdul Mohsen, passed away after a battle with illness. He was 75.
Prince Badr is considered the pioneer of modern popular poetry, and many Arab artists sang about him.
Born in Riyadh on April 2, 1949, Prince Badr is the son of one of the Kingdom’s leading poets and former Madinah governor, Prince Abdul Mohsin bin Abdul Aziz.
He has been president of the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts since 1973.
He was educated in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, also studied in Britain and the US, and has worked with prominent Arab singers.
In 2019, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud honored Prince Badr by awarding him the King Abdulaziz Medal.
Among his notable poetry collections are What the Sparrow Carves on the Date Palm (published in 1989), A Message from a Bedouin (published in 1990), Perhaps a Poem (published in 1996), and A Glint (published in 2010).
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