By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, May 14: Poet Santosh Kumar Pokharel has been declared the winner of a prestigious international award by the jury of the 11th International Literary Festival Chekhov’s Autumn 2020 held in Yalta, Crimea, for his contribution to the world literature.
The award was declared on April 22 through online video conference of the international festival in the presence of poets, authors and artists from 45 countries
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 the video records where poet Pokharel’s one best wishes speech and two poems recited by himself were presented for voting. He bagged the first place in the theme of Landscape Lyrics.
Chernov also invited Pokharel to Yalta, Crimea, to receive medal and original certification.
A few weeks back, poet Pokharel was also awarded prestigious Nikolai Gogol International Award 2021 by the Ukrainian Literary Society.
On May 5, he was decorated with another prestigious international Peoples’ Diplomacy Award from International Commonwealth of People’s Diplomacy Kazakhstan.
Poet Pokharel is a multilingual poet, editor and translator. He writes in four different international languages and has thousands of poems in Nepali, English, Hindi and Russian.
His poems have been translated and published into twenty-one languages of the world so far.
Poet Pokharel, a senior civil engineer by profession, completed his master’s in engineering from Russian Friendship University Moscow. He began his poetic journey at the age of 13.
Recently Poet Pokharel was conferred on a prestigious international award Ambassador for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation, the UNO Social Organisation.
Pokharel has published five books.
Poet Pokharel was also conferred on Silver Medal Award by Lifft Eurasia for his contribution to Russian Poetry for 2020.
Laureate of International N. Gogol Award, poet Pokharel is the first-ever name from the foreign non-Russian speaking country in history to have been nominated Honorary Member of Sevastopol Literary Association in January 2021.