Subin Bhattarai
Subin Bhattarai (born 5 November 1982) is a Nepali author and Columnist. Bhattarai's novel Summer Love was the trendsetter and popular among youths. Summer Love was Bhattarai's second book and first novel. His first book was an anthology of short stories, namely KathakiPaatra. The plot of Summer Love concerns college students at the Central Department of Environmental Science (CDES) at Tribhuban University falling in love. It was a best selling book in Nepal with in excess of 40,000 copies sold, and one of the best-selling books in the country for the year. A year later a sequel titled Saaya was released in September 2014. which concerns how the misunderstanding in Summer Love cleared and how they convince their family. It was a best selling book in Nepal and it was reprinted in the same month August, and was one of the best-selling books in the country for the year. The book was launched by actresses Garima Panta and Keki Adhikari and author Bhattarai himself at Nepal Academy, Kamaladi where there were thousand of fans. His latest work is a novel titled 'Priye Sufi' (2018) where he writes from prospective of older sister and how she overcomes her depression and her rare medical condition with love and care from her sister and father, but most importantly self-love. The book teaches us that self-love and confidence in life is utterly important to win any situation in life.
Subina Bhattarai | |
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| Born | 5 November 1982 Khotang , Nepal |
| Occupation | Writer, Columnist, Teacher |
| Nationality | Nepali |
| Genre | Fiction, Romance |
| Notable works | Kathaki Paatra (2011) Summer Love (2013) |
| Spouse | Muna Bartaula |
| Website | |
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Early life and education
Subin Bhattarai was born in Khotang in eastern Nepal. A year after he was brought to Kathmandu. His father was a government official and mother, a housewife. He completed his master's degree in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University in the year 2005. Since childhood Bhattarai has been influenced by B.P Koirala, Paarijat, Dhruba Chandra Gautam, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Anton Chekhov.
Writing career
Bhattarai started writing since he was in School at the age of 10. He started writing poems and recited several poems in Radio Nepal. He started to act in several dramas as child artist and co-hosted the popular children's program Hatemalo on Radio Nepal. His first book Kathaki Paatra an anthology of short stories was published in 2011. The stories revolve around the urban youths and love. Though commercially an average, Bhattarai was critically acclaimed in his first book. He was then inspired to write a youth centered novel. Recently he has released a new novel based on a love story named Monsoon on September 24, 2016.
Summer Love (2013) was a commercially successful novel.[1][2] He was instantly Popular among youths after the success of summer love. The popularity and craze of the book demanded its sequel. After a year and half, Saaya (2014) was out in the market and the book broke his own record in terms of selling. His craze among the youths catapulated and he became an overnight writing sensation among youths. He is currently writing a column Yuwa Man in one of the most selling weekly magazine Kantipur Saptahik. His second book Summer Love was adapted into movie by the popular filmmaker Bikash Acharya of Nai Na Bhannu La series. He has recently released a new novel Monsoon as his third novel which is based in a love story.
| Year | Book |
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| 2011 | Kathaki Paatra |
| 2013 | Summer Love |
| 2014 | Saaya |
| 2016 | Monsoon |
| 2018 | Priya Sufi |