Narayan Wagle | |
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नारायण वाग्ले | |
Born | |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
Employer | Kantipur |
Notable work | Palpasa Cafe Mayur Times |
Movement | Brihat Nagarik Andolan |
Relatives |
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Awards | Madan Puraskar |
Narayan Wagle is a Nepali journalist and writer. [1] He served as the editor of Kantipur Daily , one of Nepal's largest circulating newspapers, until 2008, [2] and was the editor of Nagarik News until 18 May 2012. [3] Wagle won the Madan Puraskar for his novel Palpasa Cafe in 2005.
Palpasa Cafe was Wagle's first book, published in Nepali in 2005, and subsequently translated into English, Korean and French. It tells the story of an artist, Drishya, who goes trekking in the Nepali countryside in the midst of the Nepalese Civil War. It was a best seller and acclaimed for bringing the realities of the Nepalese Civil War to the public in a way journalism had failed to. [4]
Mayur Times was Wagle's second book, published in Nepali in 2010. It also has themes dealing with the Nepali Civil War but is set after the war. It is a fictional narration of how journalists are caught in the crossfire, written from the perspective of a small-town newspaper in the Terai region of Nepal. Like its predecessor, Mayur Times sold moderately in Nepal but met with mixed reviews. [5]
Koreana Coffee Guff, his third book, was published in 2019. It is a non-fiction book that recounts his traveling experiences in Korea. It received mixed reviews. [6]
Narayan Gopal Gurubacharya, known professionally as Narayan Gopal and N. Gopal was a popular singer and composer of Nepali music. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons in Nepal, he is referred to as "Swar Samrat" in Nepal. He also sang in Nepal Bhasa.
Govinda Bahadur Manandhar, popularly known as Dhooswan Sayami, was a Nepali writer who wrote primarily in Nepal Bhasa. He also wrote in Hindi and Nepali. He is well known for his contribution to the field of prose fiction. He is considered the first novelist in Nepal Bhasa.
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Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer, filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her fiction and non-fiction deal with Nepal's civil conflict, as well as stories of globalization, migration and diaspora.
Palpasa Cafe is a novel by Nepali author Narayan Wagle. It tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.
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Karna Shakya is a Nepalese environmentalist, conservationist, hotel entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist. Shakya is a forester by academic qualification. He served as a wildlife officer and pioneered in establishing the first National Park in Nepal. He resigned from his government job, entered the tourism business in 1970, and now owns a chain of eco-friendly hotels in major touristic cities like Kathmandu, Pokhara, chitwan and Lumbini.
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Nepal Literature Festival is an annual international literary festival which takes place in Pokhara, Nepal. It was founded in 2011 by Bookworm Foundation, a not-for-profit organization.
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Changa Chet is a 2018 Nepalese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Dipendra K Khanal. The film is written by Pradip Bhardwaj who is the highest paid screenwriter of nepalese film industry, and produced by Madhav Wagle and Sharmila Pandey. The film stars Ayushman Joshi, Rabindra Jha, Sandip Chhetri, Arpan Thapa, Priyanka Karki, Paramita Rana, Surakshya Panta in the lead roles. The prop currency used during the shooting of the movie lead to the prosecution of the movie producer Madhav Wagle, art director Sudip Tamang and an Assistant Mahendra Bogati.
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Pretkalpa is a 2007 Nepali historical fiction novel by Narayan Dhakal. It was published in 2007 by Sajha Prakashan and won the Sajha Puraskar, 2065 BS (2008-2009). The novels depicts the life of people of a town in the Kanth during the early 20th century.
Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy is a historical book by Manjushree Thapa. The book was published in 2005 by Penguin Books. It is the third book of the writer who had previously published Mustang Bhot in Fragments in 1992 and The Tutor of History in 2001. Thapa is one of the first mainstream English writers from Nepal.
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