Nepali Poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel Declared Laureate Anton Chekhov Award

Kathmandu- Poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel has been declared winner of a very highly prestigious international recognition award by the jury of the 11th International Literary Festival Chekhov’s Autumn 2020 being held in Yalta Crimea for his contribution to the world literature. The award is Anton Chekhov International Award 2020. This was declared on April22, 2021 during the online video conference of the international festival witnessed by representative poets, authors and artists from 45 countries of the world.

Mr. Andrei V. Chernov,the head of the festival declared that they had unanimously decided to award multilingual poet and translator Santosh Kumar Pokharel from Nepal. Selection criteria were submission of video records where poet Pokharel’s one Bestwishes speech and two poems recited by himself were presented for voting and besides, his Russian speech on Anton Chekhov was highly appreciated by the board of judges. Poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel gave a short speech in Russian thanking the board of judges, the president of the festival, and audience.A few weeks back poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel was awarded a very prestigious Nikolai Gogol International Award 2021 by the Ukrainian Literary Society.