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Nepali culture and Literature is very reach indeed one could not finish learning in his / her entire life .
There are numerous great personalities who spent their life for the Literature an gave beautiful shape to our Language , Culture and Literature.

We have tried to cover just few of them here :

Hridaya Chandra Siha Pradhan

Real Name : Chandra Prashad Singh Pradhan
Birth :1972 B.S. Nepal
Death : 2016 BS.

Works of Hriddaya Chandra Singh Pradhan

Swasnimanchhe (fiction)
Gangalal Ko Chita (one act play)
Usko Ansu (collection of short stories)
Bhanubhakta Ek Samichha (criticism)
Chheu Lagera (one act play)
Uni Deuta Hun (one act play)
Kritipur Ko Yuddhama (one act play)
Ek Chihan (fiction)
Hridaya Chandra Ka Katha Haru( collection of short stories)
Afsos (collection of essays)
Chinha Parichaya ( grammar)
Some Nepali Dramas (criticism)
Bhuswarga (collection of essays)
Sahitya Ek Dristikon( criticism)
Tis Rupiya Note (collection of essays)
Sishu Sikchan Kala (child Teaching)
Junga (collection of essays)
Kura Sacho Ho (collection of essays)

Motiram Bhatta

मोतीराम भट्ट (१९२३ भदौ २५ – १९५३) नेपाली साहित्यका प्रथम गजलकार, जीवनीकार, समलोचक तथा माध्यमिक कालका प्रवर्तक थिए।

थोरै बाँचेर नेपाली साहित्यमा अत्यन्तै धेरै योगदान पुर्याउने उनी नेपाली साहित्यका प्रेरक व्यक्तित्व, कुशल नायक र होनहार प्रतिभा मानिन्छन्।

१९४० देखि १९७६ सालसम्मको नेपाली साहित्यमा श्रृङ्गारिक धाराको सुरुवातकर्ता मोतीराम भट्ट थिए।

मोतीराम भट्ट नेपाली साहित्यामा भानुभक्त आचार्य पछि आउने सशक्त व्यक्तित्व हुन्। उनले नेपाली भाषासाहित्यमा समालोचनाको सुरु गरे; भट्टले नै संवत् १९४८मा कवि भानुभक्तको जीवनचरित्रलाई प्रकाशमा ल्याए।

कवि भानुभक्त आचार्यको जीवनचरित्रमा मोतीराम भट्टले प्रभाववादी ढङ्बाट व्याख्यात्मक रूपमा भानुभक्तबारे प्रशंसा गरेको मानिन्छ। आफूले खोजेका कविलाई प्रतिभासम्पन्न तथा सहज कवि थिए भन्ने प्रमाणित गर्न उनले त्यस जीवनचरित्रमा भानुभक्तले रचेका भनेर जताततै फुटकर सिलोकहरू देखाएका भनिन्छ।

Born- 1866 on the festival day of Krishnastami

His work-

Bhanubhakta’s biography
Manodweg Prawah
Panchak Prapancha
Shakuntala
Priyadarsika
Pikdoot.

He also wrote some Hindi and Urdu poems. He was the one who introduced “Ghajals” in nepali literature.
Dinko pachas ta ke
Yeta heryo yetai mera(nepali gazal)
Pyar ma kada chot payera aaye
Sarkar po kina chahiyo
Kaha janma Paye
died at the age of 30.

Poem of Motiram Bhatta

कहाँ सम्म्को आँट लौ हेर तिन्को
रिसाएर आँखा पनि तर्न लागे
कहाँ सम्म्को आँट लौ हेर तिन्को
रिसाएर आँखा पनि तर्न लागे
एकै पल्ट आँखा घुमाई दिनाले
कती मर्न लागे कती डर्न लागे
सुनिस मन मुनिया बडा होस राखेस्
बिछाएर जाल कागुनो छर्न लागे
बिरान र आफना नराम्रा र राम्रा
सबै सुन्दरिका अघी सर्न लागे
अघी पर्न सक्दिन मैले हरिका
नजर देखी ‘मोति’ पनि झर्न थाले
बहेर मुतकरिब मुसम्मन सालिम्
एए सानै उमेर देखी मन हार्न थले । ।

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Laxmi Prasad Devkota (November 12, 1909 – September 14, 1959), was a Nepali poet. He is the best writer in the Nepali Language. He has written great works in the Nepalese Language. He is best known for the poem “Muna Madan”.

There are several tributes to the poem Muna Madan. This is a poem which shows the obligation of the people to go far from home to earn money and the realization, in comparison with family and love money is nothing.

Devkota was the third son of Pandit Til Madhav and Amar Rajya Laxmi Devi. He was born in Thatunati (now Dhobidhara), Kathmandu on the day of Dipawali, the Festival of Lights, which is a celebration of Laxmi, the Goddess of Wealth. His parents considered his birth as a gift [प्रसाद] from the goddess and named him as Laxmi Prasad [लक्ष्मी प्रसाद].

He is well considered as one of the famous icons in the field of Nepalese literature.Early life
After he received his bachelor’s of law, he wrote to a friend while he was in Santa Bhawan Hospital, “Death stands before me. I search for constellations in the sky but can find none. I cannot give peace to myself. If I could rise, I would kill myself and my future prospects.”

Laxmi Prasad Devkota was primarily a humanist who occasionally wrote from an atheistic point of view too. Given this reality, some critics have tried to line him up with Marxism or other similar politically leftist ideologies. Apparently in one one of his last poems to a friend, he said “Aakhir Shree Krishna rahecha eka” (” in the end, Lord Krishna happens to be the only truth”).

However, there has been much intellectual skepticism about this last statement simply for two reasons. First, Nepal is historically conservative and it would come as no surprise if these claims were simply fabricated.

There is no substantial proof. Secondly, historical trends suggest that atheistic individuals always “find” God on their death beds when we know of many cases that have been fabricated. In all likelihood, Devkota was probably an atheist because of the underlying theme to most of his poems.

Career: Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Devkota has contributed to Nepali literature by bringing the Sanskrit tradition to its apex and by starting modern romantic movement in the country. Devkota was the first to begin writing epics in Nepali literature and his magnum opus “Muna-Madan” remains a best seller even fifty years after his death. He is recognized as one of the greatest Nepali writers and his work is in the same level of standard as any of the greats of literature in any language.

He also served as Nepal’s Education Minister, and was a professor at Tri-Chandra College.Devkota had the ability to write poems very quickly—he wrote the Shakuntal in three months, the Sulochana epic in ten days and Kunjini in a single night. Nepali poetry soared to new heights with Devkota’s ground breaking poetry.

“Muna-Madan,” a long narrative poem in popular folk metre, begins the end of the Sanskrit tradition in Nepali literature. “पागल” (translated in English as “The Lunatic”) is another of his ground-breaking works.Devkota’s youngest son, Dr Deepak Devkota, lives in Australia while his oldest son and four daughters still live in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Publications : Laxmi Prasad Devkota

Novels

Champa (चम्पा)
Gulzar

Poetry / Short Novels

bal jasto
Kunjini (कुञ्जिनि – खण्डकाव्य)
Gaine Geet (गाइने गीत)
Putali (पुतली)
Krishibala (कृषिवाला – गीतिनाटक)
Dushyant-Shakantula Bhet (दुष्यन्त-शकुन्तला भेट खण्डकाव्य)
Munamadan (मुनामदन – खण्डकाव्य)
Ravan-Jatayu Youdha (रावण-जटायु युद्ध)
Lakshmi Kavita Sanghrah (लक्ष्मी कविता संग्रह)
Luni (लुनि)
Sun Ko Bihani (सुनको बिहानी- बालकविता)
Raj Kumar Prabhakar (राजकुमार प्रभाकर)
Sita Haran (सीता हरण)
Mahendu (म्हेन्दु)
Dhumraketu
Pagal(Poem)

Mahākāvya

Shakuntal (शाकुन्तल)
Sulochana (सुलोचना)
Bana Kusum (बनकुसुम)
Maharana Pratap (महाराणा प्रताप)
Prithvi Raj Chauhan (पृथ्वीराज चौहान)
Prometheus (प्रमीथस)

Kavi Siromani Lekhanath Poudyal

Biography of Kavi Siromani Lekhanath Poudyal

Kavi Siromani Lekhanath Poudyal (कवी शिरोमणी लेखनाथ पौड्याल ) was born in Bikram Sambat 1941at Bharatpur Chitwan Nepal .His father name was Pandit Durgadutta and Wasundhara Devi was his mother.He started learning at an early age of 5 .

Lekhnath Paudyal got married at the age of 14 but unfortunately lost his wife at the age of 20.He was inspired by the writings of Motiram Bhatta and Balmiki.His writings were published in Nepali magazines like Sharda,Madhavi and Sundari etc.Lekhnath Poudyal will always be remembered for his immense contribution towards Nepali Language and Literature.His poems describes the touch of Nepal and its nature with simplicity.”Pinjra Ko Suga”(पिंजडाको सुगा) was his unforgettable poem which expressed the cruelness of Rana rulers against the Nepali people .

The poem symbolize that the Nepali peoples are like a parrot inside a cage and the Rana’s as the jailers.He was jailed for the poem and the poem was used as the song by political heroes in the jail.Lekhnath Poudyal was honored with title “Siro Mani” for his literary works by the Government.He was the member of ‘Rajkiya Pragya Prathisthan’ and was honoured with ‘Tribhuwan Puraskar’ a special award given for literally works.Most of his poems express patriotic and revolutionary feelings for the sake of Nepali culture and society.

Works Kavi Siromani Lekhanath Poudyal:

Ritu Bichaar (रितु बिचार्)
Buddhi Binod (बुद्धु विनोद्)
Satyakaal Sambad (सत्यकाल समवाद्)
Satya Smriti (सत्य स्मृति)
Mero Ram (मेरो राम्-Translation)
Abhigyan Sakuntala (अभिज्ञान सकुन्तला)
Panchatantra (पंचतन्त्र)
Vartihari Nirved (वर्तिहारी निर्वेद्-नवकाब्य)
Tarun Tapasi (तरुन तपसी-काब्य अपुर्न)
Ganga Gauri (गंगा गौरी-कविता स्ंग्रह्)

Siromani Lekhnath Poudyal left the world on bikram sambat 2022 after giving a new shape to Nepali Language and Literature.

Parijat : Bishnu Kumari Waiba

Parijat (1937–1993)
Born :1937
Darjeeling, India
Died: 1993
Kathmandu, Nepal
Occupation :Writer

Biography of Parijat : Bishnu Kumari Waiba

Parijat (1937–1993) was a Nepali writer. Her real name was Bishnu Kumari Waiba but she wrote under the pen name Parijat. Her most acclaimed publication is Siris Ko Phul (The Blue Mimosa), which has also been adapted in the literature curriculum of some colleges in some English-speaking countries.

Parijat was born in 1937 in the hill station of Darjeeling, India, a place known for its tea gardens. Because her mother Amrita Moktan died early, she was raised by her father Dr. K.N. Waiba, who was a psychologist, and her grandparents.

The birth place of Parijat, Darjeeling, was a major centre of Nepali language, culture and literature during her growing up years. Darjeeling, which was once part of Nepal, remains inhabited by Nepali people and never lost its character as a major centre of Nepali language, culture and literature. Sharing a close relationship with Nepal, Darjeeling has played an influential role in the development of Nepal’s literature.

Therefore, Parijat was intricately connected to Nepal and Nepali literature from her early childhood. Having had a keen interest in literature from her childhood, she was destined to play an important and well-appreciated role in strengthening Nepali literature.

Parijat completed part of her schooling in Darjeeling and came to Kathmandu, Nepal in 1954. She completed her schooling at Padma Kanya School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. Suffering early on from physical ailments, at 26 she became paralyzed and was supported for much of her life by her sister.

Career

In 1959, Parijat’s first poem was published by Dharti. She published three poetry collections: Akansha, Parijat Ka Kavita and Baisalu Bartaman. Her first short story was Maile Najanmayeko Choro. She is, however, best known in Nepal as a novelist.

Altogether, she wrote ten novels of which Siris Ko Ful gained the greatest popularity. In 1965, she was awarded with the Madan Puraskar for the novel. She also received the Sarwashrestha Pandulipi Puraskar, Gandaki Basunahara Puraskar, and Bridabrit. Siris Ko Phul is one of the most important piece of work in the whole of Nepalese literature.

She was elected a member of the Tribhuwan University and was a part of Ralfa literature movement. She also played an important role in the establishment of Pragati Sil Lekhan Sangh and worked for Akhil Nepal Mahila Manch, Bandi Sahayata Niyog and Nepal Manav Adhikar Sangathan.

Parijat remained unmarried and continued to suffer physical setbacks. While she was contributing to literature, she also tried to support social causes and initiated attempts like Prisoners’ Assistance Mission. She died in 1993.

Novels of Parijat Bishnu Kumari Waiba

शिरिषको फूल Siris Ko Phool (The Blue Mimosa)
महत्ताहिन Mahattahin
परिभाषित आँखाहरु Paribhasit Aankhaharu
बैशको मान्छे Baishko Manche
तोरीबारी, बाटा, र सपनाहरु Toribari, Bata Ra Sapanaharu
अन्तर्मुखी Antarmukhi
उसले रोजेको बाटो Usle Rojeko Bato
पर्खाल भित्र र बाहिर Parkhal Bhitra Ra Bahira
अनिदो पहाड संगै Anido Pahadsangai
बोनी Boni
Short story
मैले नजन्माएको छोरो Maile Najanmayeko Choro
Short story collections
आदिम देश Aadim Desh
सडक र प्रतिभा Sadak Ra Pratibha
साल्गीको बलात्कृत आँसु Salgiko Balatkrit Aashu
बधशाला जाँदा आउँदा Badhsala Jadaa Aunda
Poem collections
आकांक्षा Akansha
पारिजातका कविता Parijat Ka Kavita
बैशालु वर्तमान Baisalu Bartaman
Memoir essays
धूपी, सल्ला र लालीगुराँसको फेदमा Dhupi Salla Ra Laliguransko Fedma
एउटा चित्रमय सुरुवात Auta Chitramay Shuruwat
अध्ययन र संघर्ष Aadhyayan Ra Sangharsha

Adikavi Bhanubhakta Aacharya

Biography of Aadikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya :

Aadikavi Bhanubhakta Acharya (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) (1814–1868) was a Nepali poet who translated the Ramayana from Sanskrit to Nepali. He was born in 1814 in Chundi Ramgha in the district of Tanahu, and was educated at home by his grandfather, Shri Krishna Acharya. His father Dhananjaya Acharya was a government official who worked for General Amar Singh Thapa, Governor of Palpa in western Nepal.

Bhanubhakta Acharya is considered the first poet writing in Nepali language. Poets before him in Nepal usually wrote in Sanskrit. One of his writings is well known for its colorful, flowing praise of Kathmandu valley and its inhabitants.

Life

Bhanubhakta (1814–1868) was a Nepali poet who translated the great epic “Ramayana” from Sanskrit to Nepali. Born to a Brahmin family in 1814 in Tanahu, he received at home an excellent education with a strong leaning towards religion from his grandfather.

After the fall of the Khas Empire in the 15th century, its language which evolved into present day Nepali was considered bastardized and limited to speech. Sanskrit dominated most of the written texts of South Asia and its influence was particularly strong in Nepal. Brahmins were the teachers, scholars and priests of the society by virtue of their caste. Their education was Sanskrit-oriented since most religious texts of the Hindu religion were in that language.

Many wrote poetry that was too heavily Sanskritized. Bhanubhakta was definitely “the” writer who gained the acceptance of a wide range of people and his creations played a key role in popularizing the written form of the Khas language.

Bhanubhakta’s contribution was unique. Children who received an education at the time began their studies with light epics such as the “Ramayan” and graduated to the more complex “Upanishads” and “Vedas.” Ram’s heroic exploits were highly impressive to Bhanubhakta, so he decided to make the deity more accessible to the people who spoke Khas. (Since the social order did not encourage literacy, most country people did not understand anything when epics were read out to them in Sanskrit.)
When completed, his translation of the Ramayan was so lyrical that it was more like a song than a poem.

Bhanubhakta did not study Western literature. All his ideas and experiences were derived from his native land. This lent such a strong Nepali flavor to his writing that few poets have been able to equal his simple creations in terms of content: a sense of religion, a sense of simplicity, and the warmth of his country are the strongest features of his poetry. Those who read the first lines of the Bhanubhakta Ramayan can clearly feel Nepal in them.

Bhanubhakta was a young boy from a wealthy family and was leading an unremarkable life until he met a grass cutter who wanted to give something to society so that he could be remembered after death too. After listening to the grass cutter Bhanubhakta felt ashamed of himself. So by the inspiring words of the grass cutter, he wrote these lines:

He gives his life to cutting grass and earns little money, he hopes to make a well for his people so he will be remembered after death, this high thinking grass cutter lives in poverty, I have achieved nothing, though I have much wealth. I have neither made rest houses nor a well, all my riches are inside my house. This grass cutter has opened my eyes today, my life is worthless if the memory of my existence fades away.

Bhanubhakta wrote two masterpieces in his life. One, obviously, is the “Bhanubhaktey Ramayan” and the other is a letter he wrote in verse form to the prime minister while in prison. Due to some misunderstanding in signing the papers.

He was made a scapegoat and put into prison. His health became bad and he was given false hopes of being set free. For a long time his case was not even heard. So he wrote a petition to the all-powerful prime minister requesting his freedom.

Bal Krishna Sam

Biography of Balkrishna Samser Jang Bahadur Rana (1903-1981

Balkrishna Samser Jang Bahadur Rana (1903-1981),who adopted the pen name ‘Sama’ which means equal in 1948, is one of the trimurti of early modern Nepali Literature that considered a dramatist or a poet and his reputation as a painter should also be mentioned but as the years passed and his contributions reasseased with the benefit of hindsight it seems likely that this poetry will stand the test of time rather than his plays.

The latter,though still highly praised by critics are often assessed by younger writers as heavily dated and decreasing relevance to a society that has changed radically since they were composed.

The majority of the poems after his plays represent a major advance in the simplification of poetic diction in Nepali .The relational angestic philosophy they promote with varying degrees of success strike a chord among readers.Unlike his two equally illustrations contemporaries, { Read More}

Bhupi Serchand

Biography of Bhupi Serchand:

Its safe to say that along with Gopal Prashad Rimal ,Bhupi Serchan (1936-1939) is one of the greatest on mere recent Nepali Poetry.Like Rimal’s,his poems have a marked effect on the language and philosophical attitude of most of the Nepali verse published after 1970 .

Although he was the son of a wealthy Thakali from Tukucha vilage to the north of Pokhara, Serchan quickly turned to communism . Most of the poems of Serchan has political influence.

In 1969 a collection of 42 poems named ‘Ghumne Mech Mathi Andho Manchhe ‘ which became the most influential collection of Nepali verse since since Devkpta’s ‘Muna Madan’ and Rimal’s ‘AmakoSapana’ .

After the experimental period, by the work of ‘Tesro Aayam (Third Dimension). movement and the poems of Mohan Koirala, the Nepali Language ,in one critics words was ‘rested to its pristine glory’ in Serchan’s poetry .

Dharnidhar Sharma Koirala

Biography of Dharnidhar Sharma Koirala

Dharanidhar Koirala often called as Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala was born in 1893 in a place that is now part of Sindhuli District.a part of the Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal, Dharanidhar Koirala came from a Hindu Brahmin family.

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Gopal Prashad Rimal

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Biography of Gopal Prashad Rimal

Gopal Prasad Rimal is a noted poet and playwright who ushered in a new era in Nepali literature. His role and contribution in prose poetry and dramas have earned a high respect and reputation in Nepal literary spectrum.

Gopal Prasad Rimal was born in Lagan, Kathmandu in 1918 AD as the eldest son of Umakanta Rimal and Aditya Kumari. He attained his education in Kathmandu, Nepal.

He was a brilliant student and topped the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination in 1992 BS. He completed intermediate level of education from Tri-Chandra College. He dropped study after intermediate level because of his unstable state of mind.

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Siddhi Charan Shrestha

Siddhi Charan Shrestha [1912-92],the son of prosperous newar land owner was another member of the generation of poet that laid the foundations of the twentieth century Nepali verse. He was considered as the ‘Yuga Kabi’ .His poetry has much In common with Devkota’s though its mworded and calmer in tone.Like Devvkota’s ,Shrestha was a romantic who rebelled against the shortcomings of the Rana Rigime.His most famous poems ,’Mero Pyaro Okhaldhunga’ looks back nostalgically at the simplicity of the poets life as a child in the eastern Nepal and therefore compares the present unfavorably with the past and the city with the village. The poem was regarded as a political statement but it could equally be argued that it means no mere than it says. Many of Shrestha’s poems,specially those written during the 1940’s were clearly meant to make the poitical points,but he was at his best while

writing sensitive personal poems such as ‘Mero Choro(1948)’ a non metrical but carefully structured composition on the innocence of a child. Read More