Guru Prasad Mainali (Nepali: गुरुप्रसाद मैनाली) was a Nepali short story writer and is one of three well-known writers of Nepali literature, along with Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala and Laxmi Prasad Devk…
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer …
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own Eng…
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living…
Chetan Bhagat writes op-ed columns for English and Hindi newspapers, including Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar, focusing on youth and issues based on national development. Bhagat is also a motivatio…
Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinchi…
SAMRAT UPADHYAY is the author of Arresting God in Kathmandu, which earned him a Whiting Award, and The Guru of Love, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the…
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary a…
Parijat was a Nepalese writer. Her real name was Bishnu Kumari Waiba but she wrote under the pen name Parijat. Her most acclaimed publication is Shiris Ko Phool (The Blue Mimosa), which has also been …
Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (Nepali: विश्वेश्वरप्रसाद कोइराला) was born in Varanasi to father Krishna Prasad Koirala, was one of the greatest Nepali political and literary figure. He was the Prime Mini…
Nayan Raj Pandey (Nepali: नयनराज पाण्डे) is a Nepali writer. He writes stories and novels, as well as screenplays for Nepali cinema. He is known for his representation of contemporary Nepalese society…
Krishna Dharabasi (born in 1960) in Panchthar, Nepal is an award-winning Nepali writer and a literary critic. Dharabasi won Madan Puraskar, Nepal’s most popular literary prize, in 2005 for his bestsel…
Sanjeev Uprety is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu. He is the author of notable novel Ghanchakkar, and a collection of essays, Siddhanta ka …
Saru Bhakta (Nepali: सरु भक्त) is the pen name of Bhakta Raj Shrestha, a celebrated Nepalese novelist and poet and a winner of Madan puraskaar, the most prestigious literary honour in Nepal. He was bo…
Hridya Chandra Singh Pradhan was born in 1972 B.S, at Maruhiti, Kathmandu. His childhood name was Chandra Prasad. He was white, lien and dwarf. Early in the life he was caught by asthma at the age of …
Diamond Shumsher Rana (डायमनशमशेर राणा) was born at Tansen Durbar in Palpa, where his grandfather, Sher Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, was governor. His father Buddha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana was a c…
Bijaya Malla (Nepali: विजय मल्ल) is one of the prominent figure in Nepali literature. He started his writing career by writing a poem "Marnu Parcha Hai Dai" which was published in 1997 B.S. Bijaya Mal…
Upendra Subba is a poet, lyricist and story writer. He is one of the initiator of the movement called Srijanshil Arajakta (Creative anarchy) along with Rajan Mukarung and Hangyug Agyat.
Dhanush Chandra Gautam (ध.च. गोतामे) is a Nepali literary figure. He was born on 1989 B.S. in Manharakatti village of Mahottari district to Govinda Chandra Gautam and Dipwatidevi. His genres are novel…
Bhawani Bhikshu was a prominent Nepali literary figure. His real name was Bhawani Prasad Gupta. Bhikshu started his writing career in Nepali literature by writing an essay on criticism which was publi…
Chuden Kabimo is an Indian Nepali language writer and journalist based in Kalimpong, India. He received the prestigious Madan Puraskar for his novel Urmaal in 2024. His books revolves around the Gorkh…
