Banira Giri

Banira Giri

Dr. Banira Giri became the first Nepali woman to be awarded a PhD from Tribhuvan University.
She was the first woman to receive the Sajha Award, for her
poetic fiction Shabdatit Shantanu.
She is one of the very few Nepali women writers to have established a reputation outside
Nepal.
The poems of Banira Giri are always inspiring, her strong
words and forceful logical exposition probing the depths of
human wounds and carrying the inner voice of the victim. In many ways, Giri’s poems are a
compendium of the society and cultures she lives in.
In 1997, the Japan Foundation Asia Center gave Banira Giri the Takeshi Kaiko Memorial award
for one-person poetry readings in three major cities of Japan.
Banira Giri has been decorated with Nepal’s esteemed Supraval

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