List Of Nepali Poets

List of Nepalese Poets

• Abhi Subedi - (born 1945) poet, essayist, critic, columnist and playwright
• Amber Gurung - (1938–2016) poet and musician, composer of the current national anthem
• Ashesh Malla (born 1954) - poet, playwright, and theater person
• Bhanubhakta Acharya - (1814–1868) poet and translator, the first translation of Ramayana from Sanskrit, honored with the title of Adikavi (The First Poet)
• Banira Giri (born 1946) - poet
• Bhim Nidhi Tiwari - (1911–1973) poet
• Bhupi Sherchan - (1937-1990) poet
• Chandani Shah- (1949 – 2001) poet, queen of Nepal
• Dharma Ratna Yami - (1915–1975)
• Dharmachari Guruma - (1898–1978)
• Girija Prasad Joshi - (1939–1987) poet
• Gopal Prasad Rimal - (1918–1973) poet and playwright
• Gopal Yonzon - (1943–1997) songwriter
• Gyandil Das - (1821-1883) poet
• Hangyug Agyat - (born 1978) poet
• Ishwor Ballav- (1937–2008) poet
• Krishna Bhooshan Bal - (1948–2012) poet
• Krishnahari Baral - (born, 1954) poet and critic
• Kshetra Pratap Adhikary - (1943–2014) poet
• Kul Bahadur KC - (1946-2013) poet, laureate
• Lakshmi Prasad Devkota - (1909–1959) poet, playwright, and essayist
• Lekhnath Paudyal - (1885–1966) poet, founding Father of twentieth-century Nepali poetry
• Madan Mohan Mishra - (1931–2013) poet
• Madhav Prasad Ghimire - (born 1919) poet
• Mahananda Sapkota - (1896–1977) poet and linguist
• Motiram Bhatta - (1866–1896) poet and ghazals
• Mukunda Sharan Upadhyaya - (born 1940) poet
• Nara Nath Acharya - (1906–1988)
• Neer Shah, (born 1951)
• Phatte Bahadur Singh - (1902–1983) poet, jailed for life for publishing a volume of poetry, before being released four years later
• Ramesh Kshitij - (born 1969) poet
• Shrawan Mukarung - (born 1968) - poet and songwriter
• Siddhicharan Shrestha - (1912–1992) poet and dissident
• Suman Pokhrel - (born 1967) poet, lyricist, translator and artist
• Toya Gurung - poet and member of the Nepal Academy
• Tulsi Diwasa - poet and folklorist
• Upendra Subba - (born 1971) poet
• Yogmaya Neupane - (1867–1941) poet and women's rights pioneer^[
• Yuyutsu Sharma - (born 1960) poet