Lil Bahadur Chettri

Lil Bahadur Chettri was born in 1933 in Assam, in north-eastern India, where he lived almost all his life. He published around eighteen books, novels and essays, in the Nepali language. A novel devoted to the Nepalis of the Brahmaputra valley won him the Sahitya Akademi Award, from India's academy of letters. He also received the Jagadamba Shree, awarded in Nepal for a body of work as a whole, and the Padma Shri, an Indian civilian honour. He died on 13 March 2025, at his home in Guwahati.

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