Ramlal Joshi is a Nepalese writer and educator from Dhangadi. In 2016, he won the

Madan Puraskar The Madan Puraskar () is a literary honor in Nepal which Madan Puraskar Guthi confers annually for an outstanding book in the Nepali language published within the calendar year. It is considered as the most prestigious literature award in Nepal. ...

for his short–story collection, '' Aina''. Joshi is a resident of

Dhangadhi Dhangadhi () is a sub-metropolitan city and the district headquarters of Kailali District in Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It shares a border with India in the south, Godawari and Gauriganga Municipality in the North, Kailari Rural Munici ...

city in

Kailali Kailali District (), a part of Sudurpashchim Province in Terai plain, is one of the 77 districts of Nepal. The district, with Dhangadhi as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a population of 911,155 (2021 census) and (775,709 in ...

district of

Sudurpashchim province Sudurpashchim Province () is one of the seven Provinces of Nepal, provinces established by the Constitution of Nepal, new constitution of Nepal which was adopted on 20 September 2015. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, ...

. Previously, he had been a political activist, a journalist and a teacher. He had been the chairman of Sudur Paschimanchal Sahitya Samaj, an organization for the promotion of literature and culture in far west region of

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

. He began his literary career by publishing a Gazal collection titled ''Hatkela ma Aakash'' in 2000 (2057 BS). He received Madan Purskar for his book ''Aina'' (i.e., ''Mirror''), an anthology of short stories in Nepali. He published his second book ''Sakhi'', a novel on 6 October 2018. On 2 September 2022, he published his third book, a second short–story collection titled ''Ba Aama''.

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Madan Puraskar winners Nepali-language writers 21st-century Nepalese male writers People from Kailali District Year of birth missing People from Dhangadhi {{Nepal-bio-stub