Banira Giri

Banira Giri was born on 11 April 1946 in Kurseong, near Darjeeling. After a degree at the University of North Bengal, she taught at Padma Kanya Campus and then at Tribhuvan University, where she was the first woman to earn a doctorate, with a thesis on the poetry of Gopal Prasad Rimal. A poet, novelist and essayist, she represented Nepal at the Afro-Asian Writers' Conference in 1975 and was the first woman to win the Sajha Prize. She died in Kathmandu on 24 May 2021.

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• NovelकारागारBanira Giri · 1978not translated into EnglishLiterature