Ramesh Bikal

Ramesh Bikal (Template:Lang-ne) (born 1932, near Gokarna, Nepal in the Kathmandu Valley) is a Nepalese writer who is known for his works portraying rural life and the lives of common people in Nepal.

He received a B.Ed. in 1960, and worked in education. His early stories had socialist and anti-establishment themes. As a result, he was imprisoned three times between 1949 and 1960. In more recent work, he has focused on sexual relations.^[1]

Bikal was the first short story writer to be given the Madan Puraskar award.^[1] He received the Daulat Bikram Bista Aakhyan Samman Award in 2008 for six decades of contributions to fiction writing in Nepal.^[2]

Works

Birāno Deshmā ("In an Empty Land"), 1959
Nayā Sadakko Gīt ("The Song of New Road"), 1962
13 Ramālilā Kathāharū ("Thirteen Enjoyable Stories"), 1967
Āja Pheri Arko Tannā Pherincha ("Today Yet Another Bedspread is Changed"), 1967
Euṭā Buḍho Violin Āshākavariko Dhunmā ("An Old Violin in the Ashāvari Tune"), 1968
Agenāko Ḍilmā ("On the Edge of the Hearth"), 1968
Urmilā Bhāujū ("Sister-in-Law Urmilā"), 1968
21 Ramālilā Kathāharū ("Twenty-one Enjoyable Stories"), 1968 ^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature (Voices from Asia), edited and translated by Michael J. Hutt, University of California Press, 1991. p. 244. ISBN 9780520910263
^ "Awards". Nepal Creative Writers' Society. Retrieved 2014-07-10.

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[hutt-1] Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature (Voices from Asia), edited and translated by Michael J. Hutt, University of California Press, 1991. p. 244. ISBN 9780520910263

[2] "Awards". Nepal Creative Writers' Society. Retrieved 2014-07-10.

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