nepali-literature

The Man from Karnali

Buddhisagar’s novel Karnali Blues starts with a father, who says after seeing his newborn son for the first time, “He has a mole on...

New venue showcasing Nepali society, literature and art

When a woman carries herself around in the streets or even at her workplace or her home, she is constantly hounded by...

Poet of the Nepali soul

When national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the age of 101, it marked the end of...

Bimala Tumkhewa: Putting kinema on the map of Nepal

Born in 1978 in Tehrathum, Bimala Tumkhewa is not an unfamiliar name in Nepal’s literary scene. Popular for her hard-hitting journalistic articles...

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Arko, the Nepali minstrel from Bengal

If you like Nepali folk songs, you must have come across a hirsute man on Youtube, singing old, familiar songs with an...

Writing about Nepal from afar

When asked how he balances writing about Kathmandu while living abroad, Samrat Upadhyay asks: “What do we mean by authenticity? According to...

Nepal (and international) Literature Festival

The Nepal Literature Festival (NLF) has expanded in scope and content since it started eight years ago, and the 2019 edition this weekend will...

Canadian's missionary zeal for Nepali

On the morning of 31 October 1954, 29-year-old William J Burke stepped on a red-gold carpet of fallen maple leaves outside his...

Toya Gurung: Nepali literature's Thulnani

When I first saw Toya Gurung's name in an anthology of poems, I thought she had to be Japanese. I had known of...

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Maya Thakuri: Writing between the lines

Born on July 2, 1946 in Lucknow, Maya Thakuri’s first poems were hate letters to people who mistreated her. “They used to...

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