1. Banira Giri was a Nepalese poet and novelist, best known for her novels such as Karagar, Nirbandha and her poetry collections such as Jiwan: Thayamaru and Euta Jiundo Jung Bahadur.
17 Facts About Banira Giri
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Banira Giri was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.
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Banira Giri received her bachelor's degree from North Bengal University.
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Banira Giri traveled to Kathmandu in 1965 for an award ceremony.
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Banira Giri then received an invitation from the Royal Secretariat to study at TU with scholarship.
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Banira Giri started teaching at Padma Kanya Campus after receiving her master's degree.
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Banira Giri taught at various colleges and campuses of the Tribhuvan University in her lifetime.
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Banira Giri was the second poet, after Laxmi Prasad Devkota, to represent Nepal at the Afro-Asian Writers' Conference; she did so in 1975.
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Banira Giri published her first book Euta Jiundo Jung Bahadur, a poetry collection, in 1974.
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Banira Giri received positive reviews for her work and published a second poetry collection titled Jiwan: Thayamaru, in 1977.
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Banira Giri's third work was a novel titled Karagar, published in 1978.
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In 1999, Banira Giri published a poetic fantasy novel titled Shabdatit Shantanu, for which she received the Sajha award.
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Banira Giri married Shankar Giri, an engineer from Janakpur, in 1967.
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Banira Giri was a close friend of the writer Parijat.
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Banira Giri was survived by her husband, a son and a daughter.
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Banira Giri won the Sajha Puraskar in 1999 for her poetic fantasy work Shabatit Shantanu.
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Banira Giri was awarded with Suprabal-Gorkha-Dakshin-Bahu, the second highest civilian honour in the Kingdom of Nepal by His Majesty's Government of Nepal.