Gopal Prasad Rimal

Gopal Prasad Rimal was born in Kathmandu, in 1917 or 1918 depending on the sources. His first poems appeared in the monthly Sharada, in the mid-thirties. An opponent of the Rana dynasty, he founded a political party and led young people into the streets of the capital. He also wrote for the theatre, notably Masan and Yo Prem. Historians of literature regard him as the first Nepali poet to have abandoned metre. He received the Tribhuvan Prize in 1973 and died in Kathmandu on 24 October of the same year.

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• Poetryआमाको सपनाGopal Prasad Rimal · 1962not translated into EnglishLiterature