About us

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala (1896 – 1961)

Nirala Publications is named after the great Indian poet, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala and is a significant South Asian publishing house featuring the best known and little known authors from India, Nepal and rest of the world.

For more than two decades its focus has been towards Nepal, Buddhism and Himalayan studies expressed in the extensive and ever growing Nirala Nepal Series.

Today Nirala Publications is the largest publishing house in the world for publications on Nepal and Himalayan culture.

It also aims to bring to the Asian readers the best known literature from all over world, especially poetry.

Nirala collaborates with several foreign publishers and institutes and in future hopes to continue to present to it’s readers literature and original research from all over the world.

In addition, it supports Pratik, A Magazine of Contemporary Writing and has been instrumental in the publication of the magazine’s several special issues.

Photo by Andreas Stimm from Nepal Trilogy