Four writers honored with cash awards in Kohalpur

The Hamro Purnima Sahitya Pratisthan in Kohalpur, Banke, has honored four writers with cash awards.

The institution felicitated them at a special literary program held in Kohalpur on Saturday, giving each awarded writer a cash prize of 20,000 rupees.

Mustafa Ahsan Qureshi of Nepalgunj received the Karmayogi Badri Bikram Purnima Vangmaya Award 2082. Bijay Raj Acharya of Pyuthan received the 2083 edition of the same Vangmaya Award.

Pushpa Raj Joshi "Pukar," a young writer and journalist from Dhangadhi, received the Karmayogi Badri Bikram Purnima Yuva Pratibha (Young Talent) Award 2082. Writer Niranjana Chand "Niru" of Bardiya was honored with the 2083 edition of the same Young Talent Award.

The program's chief guest, Dr. Gopal Prasad Sharma, former campus chief of Mahendra Bahumukhi Campus, Nepalgunj, draped shawls on all four recipients and handed them their cash prizes and certificates of honor. Following the award distribution, the writers present at the program also read out their own works.