Kathmandu, April 17: The fourth international poets’ conference of Traditional Poetry Writers’ Association of the World (TPWAW) held in Nepal.
Poets from Nepal, South Korea, China, the United Kingdom and the United States participated in the general conference held here yesterday. On the occasion, three Nepali poets Bhuwan Hari Sigdel, Sitaram Adhikari and Prahlad Pokharel were honoured with the Yew Suhng-Gyou Literary Award.
A conference was jointly chaired by TPWAW President Korean poet Kim Bong Goon and Nepal Chapter President Prof Ram Kumar Pandey. Besides presenting papers on traditional poems of different countries, various poetic pieces were also recited in the conference.