The Home Affairs Bureau congratulates Hong Kong poet Agnes Lam on winning the Special Mention award in the 24th Nosside International Poetry Prize. She is the first Chinese winner in this competition.

The Nosside International Poetry Prize is the only global poetry contest for unpublished works, multilingual and multimedia. Entries can be written in any language and submitted in the form of written poetry, video poetry or musical poetry. Ms Lam's winning entry is English poem Vanilla in the Stars.

Ms Lam, born and raised in Hong Kong, is an Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Applied English Studies. She studied at the University of Singapore and completed a doctoral degree in linguistics in 1984 at the University of Pittsburgh.