Written by: Remoon Gorkhali - 24004, Grade X
Posted on: 10 January, 2022
Neelam Karki Niharika born April 9, 1975. She is a Nepali poet, novelist and story writer. She is best known for Beli, Hawaan, Cheerharan and Yogmaya which are some of the novels, poems and stories she has written. She published her first novel in 1994. Karki's book Cheerharan has become a best seller in Nepal in July 2016. She is a well-respected novelist in Nepal and her novels are sought after by many information networks and she is also famous in Nepali communities beyond Nepal. She writes mostly about the problems prevalent in some places of Nepal like cast discrimination, gender discrimination, male-dominated society, etc. her idle or inspiration was Parijat. Her novel “Yogmaya” won the Madan Puraskar. Yogmaya is based after Yogmaya who was a feminist, a religious leader. She was an activist born in Bhojpur who fought against the dreadful Rana regime. Her writing skills have added a new dimension and enriched Nepali literature. Her contribution to the social and political changes in Nepal cannot be exaggerated. She has written a lot of novels describing women’s rights being taken away. She has gone to many tv channels of Nepal to talk about her book like chirharan where she explains how Yogmaya was not only a feminist and it would be injustice towards yogmaya if we said that she only supported women but in actual truth, she was trying to change the whole view of the society which is a big task. She also talks about the research she did to uncover the truth about the things Yogmaya had done to change society. In 1994 she published a novel named Maun Jeevan then again she published another book on 1997 named Niyatiko Khel then she published a story collection in 2006 named Hawan she also published a long poem in 2006 named Brain Fever then she again wrote some more story collection on 2006, 2007, 2012 named Neelam Karki Niharika Ka Kabita, Kagaj Ma Dastakhat, Beli respectively then she wrote Cheerharan which won the Padmashree Sahitya Puraskar in 2016 then she again won the Madan Puraskar with the book about Yogmaya and named after Yogmaya. Her latest book is named Trichalish Katha (43 Katha) . It is a story collection and it was published in 2019.
