Kathmandu, November 24:

Dr Gyanu Pandey received the best doctoral research award for her thesis titled

‘Existentialism in the Novels of BP Koirala’ at a programme held here today. The poet laureate, Madhav Prasad Ghimire, gave away the award comprising a cash prize of Rs 10,001 to Pandey. The Saindhoj Nandakumari Research Trust had adjudged the thesis as the best among the doctoral thesis done in Nepali literature last year.