Nepal All works

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• ChronicleSvayambhu Puranaस्वयम्भू पुराणAnonymous · 1400The Buddhist myth of a lake drained by a bodhisattva's sword, from which emerge a habitable land and its sanctuary on the hill.Literature
• EpicBhanu Bhakta Ramayanaभानुभक्तको रामायणBhanubhakta Acharya · 1887The first epic of Nepali literature: the story of Rāma rendered into Nepali in the middle of the nineteenth century, published in full in 1887.Literature
• Essayकवि भानुभक्तको जीवनचरित्रMotiram Bhatta · 1891not translated into EnglishThe life of the first poet in the Nepali language, written in 1891 by the man who had collected and had his work printed.Literature
• Short storiesThe WardनासोGuru Prasad Mainali · 1935A short story from 1935 about a childless Brahmin who takes a second wife, and about the first wife, who fades into the background.Literature
• PoetryMuna MadanमुनामदनLaxmi Prasad Devkota · 1936The poem of a departure for Tibet and of a woman who waits, known to all of Nepal.Literature
• TheatrePrahladप्रह्लादBalkrishna Sama · 1938A play from the late thirties that transposes a Hindu myth into a quarrel between human knowledge and faith.Literature
• Poetryदागबत्तीBhim Nidhi Tiwari · 1946not translated into EnglishA Nepali poem in which a man looks back on his mother's cremation, as lived by the child charged with lighting the pyre.Literature
• Poetryतरुण तपसीLekhnath Paudyal · 1953not translated into EnglishA long allegorical poem from 1953 in which a tree tells its life to a grieving traveller.Literature
• NovelMountains Painted with TurmericबसाइँLil Bahadur Chettri · 1958A novel from 1958 about a family of poor peasants in eastern Nepal, struggling against a moneylender and a landowner.Literature
• NovelThe Window of the House Oppositeपल्लो घरको झ्यालGovinda Bahadur Malla 'Gothale' · 1959A novel of 1959: a young Newar bride, a colourless husband, and the man she watches through the window.Literature
• PoetryगौरीMadhav Prasad Ghimire · 1959not translated into EnglishA 1959 elegy for a wife who died young, written in fixed metres by a poet whom his country later made its national poet.Literature
• NovelAnuradhaअनुराधाBijaya Malla · 1961A novel of 1961 about a young woman from the Terai who refuses the husband chosen for her.Literature
• Poetryआमाको सपनाGopal Prasad Rimal · 1962not translated into EnglishA verse collection of 1962, largely tied to the revolution that ended the Rana regime, written in a language without metre.Literature
• NovelThere's a Carnival Todayआज रमिता छIndra Bahadur Rai · 1964A novel of 1964 about Darjeeling in the aftermath of Indian independence, its tea workers and its political quarrels.Literature
• CinemaAamaHira Singh Khatri · 1964A son returned from the army, a vanished mother, and the first fiction film shot in the kingdom.Cinema
• NovelBlue Mimosaशिरीषको फूलParijat · 1965A novel of 1965 about a former Gurkha soldier whom the encounter with a rebellious young woman confronts with his war crimes.Literature
• Novelतीन घुम्तीBishweshwar Prasad Koirala · 1968not translated into EnglishA novel written in prison by a former head of government, about a woman torn between her imprisoned husband and another man.Literature
• Poetryघुम्ने मेचमाथि अन्धो मान्छेBhupi Sherchan · 1969not translated into EnglishA 1969 collection, in free verse and everyday language, that mocks the country's official glories.Literature
• NovelThe Wake of the White Tigerसेतो बाघDiamond Shumsher Rana · 1970Palace intrigues in the Nepal of the Ranas: Diamond Shumsher Rana's great historical novel.Literature
• Poetryबैरागी काइँलाका कविताहरूBairagi Kainla · 1974not translated into EnglishA 1974 collection, the first book of a Limbu poet who was one of the architects of modernism in Nepali poetry.Literature
• CinemaKumariPrem Bahadur Basnet · 1977A former living goddess faces marriage, in the first colour film of the kingdom.Cinema
• CinemaParal ko AagoPratap Subba · 1978A domestic quarrel brought to the screen in the hills of Darjeeling, based on a Nepali realist short story.Cinema
• NovelकारागारBanira Giri · 1978not translated into EnglishA woman alone in Kathmandu and a forbidden love: Banira Giri's first novel.Literature
• CinemaKusume RumalTulsi Ghimire · 1985Two students in love, a rival, and the songs that made the film the first great success of Nepali cinema.Cinema
• CinemaHimalayaHimalaya, l'enfance d'un chefEric Valli · 1999A yak caravan in Dolpo, an old chief in mourning and his young rival, played by inhabitants of the valley.Cinema

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