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Balkrishna Sama

Died in 1981

Balkrishna Sama was born in Kathmandu in 1902 or 1903, depending on the sources, into the Rana family, which then governed the country. An officer in the Nepalese army, he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He wrote plays drawing on Sanskrit and English models, lyric poetry and a few short stories, and left an autobiography. He has been called the first great dramatist of modern Nepali theatre, in the manner of the English master. He died in Kathmandu in 1981 or 1982, depending on the sources.

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