List of Nepalese poets

Nepali

• Abhi Subedi – – poet, essayist, critic, columnist and playwright
• Amber Gurung – – poet and musician, composer of the current national anthem
• Ashesh Malla – – poet, playwright and theater person
• Bhanubhakta Acharya – – poet and translator, first translation of Ramayana from Sanskrit, honored with the title of Adikavi
• Banira Giri – – poet
• Bhim Nidhi Tiwari – – poet
• Bhupi Sherchan – – poet
• Bidhyanath Pokhrel – – poet and politician
• Bimala Tumkhewa – – poet
• Bhuwan Dhungana – – poet and storywriter
• Chandani Shah – – poet, queen of Nepal
• Dharanidhar Koirala – – poet
• Dharma Ratna Yami –
• Dharmachari Guruma –
• Geeta Tripathee – – poet, lyricist and literary critic
• Girija Prasad Joshi – – poet
• Gokul Joshi –
• Gopal Prasad Rimal – – poet and playwright
• Gopal Yonzon – – songwriter
• Gyandil Das – – poet
• Hangyug Agyat – – poet
• Ishwor Ballav– – poet
• Janak Prasad Humagain – – poet
• Kedar Man Vyathit – poet
• Krishna Bhooshan Bal – – poet
• Krishnahari Baral – – poet and critic
• Kshetra Pratap Adhikary – – poet
• Kul Bahadur KC – – poet, laureate
• Lakshmi Prasad Devkota – – poet, playwright and essayist
• Lekhnath Paudyal – – poet, founding Father of twentieth–century Nepali poetry
• Madan Mohan Mishra – – poet
• Madhav Prasad Ghimire – – poet
• Mahananda Sapkota – – poet and linguist
• Motiram Bhatta – – poet and ghazalist
• Mukunda Sharan Upadhyaya – – poet
• Naba Raj Lamsal – – poet, radio journalist, and government official
• Nara Nath Acharya –
• Neer Shah –
• Parijat – – Nepali novelist, poet. First woman to win Madan Puraskar
• Phatte Bahadur Singh – – poet, jailed for life for publishing a volume of poetry, before being released four years later
• Prema Shah – – poet, novelist and short–story writer
• Ramesh Kshitij – – poet
• Rudra Raj Pande – – educator, poet, novelist
• Sanu Sharma – novelist, short story writer, poet, lyricist
• Saraswati Pratikshya – poet, novelist
• Sarita Tiwari – poet, columnist
• Saru Bhakta – – poet, novelist
• Shrawan Mukarung – – poet and songwriter
• Siddhicharan Shrestha – – poet and dissident
• Sulochana Manandhar – poet, columnist and activist
• Suman Pokhrel – – poet, lyricist, translator and artist
• Toya Gurung – poet and member of the Nepal Academy
• Tulsi Diwasa – poet and folklorist
• Upendra Subba – – poet
• Vishnu Raj Atreya – – poet and scholar
• Yogmaya Neupane – – poet and women's rights pioneer
• Yuddha Prasad Mishra
• Yuyutsu Sharma – – poet

Nepal Bhasha

• Buddha Sayami – – poet and member of Parliament
• Phatte Bahadur Singh – – poet
• Ganesh Lal Shrestha – – poet
• Girija Prasad Joshi – – poet, playwright and novelist
• Madan Mohan Mishra – – poet
• Moti Laxmi Upasika –
• Rebati Ramanananda Shrestha – – freedom fighter, journalist and author
• Siddhicharan Shrestha – – poet and dissident
• Siddhidas Mahaju – – poet
• Sulochana Manandhar – – poet, columnist and activist

English

• Greta Rana – – poet, writer, wordsmith.
• Abhi Subedi – – poet, essayist, critic, columnist and playwright
• Rabi Thapa – poet and editor
• Suman Pokhrel – – poet, lyricist, translator and artist
• Yuyutsu Sharma – – poet
• Janak Sapkota – – poet, haiku poet
• Sangita Swechcha – poet, writer

Hindi

• Sitaram Agrahari – – poet and journalist

Chinese

• Sulochana Manandhar – – poet, columnist and activist