# Kedar Man Vyathit

_Nepali poet of Nepali and Newari languages_

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> Kedar Man Vyathit (Nepali: केदारमान व्यथित; 1914–1998) was a Nepali poet of Nepali, Newar and Hindi languages. Educated up to the third grade, he started out as an employee of a timber godown, but later co-founded Nepali Citizens Rights Forum with Sukraraj Shastri. Sentenced to 18 years for treason by the Rana regime in 1997 BS (1942 CE), he was tutored in poetry by Siddhicharan Shrestha in prison. After the fall of the Ranas, he grew close to the monarchy, becoming a member of King Tribhuvan's Adviser Assembly, and, later, cabinet minister during both King Mahendra and King Birendra's reign. He was confined to bed for a number of his final years, having injured himself in a fall.

## Quick facts

- **Born:** 1914 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P569))
- **Place of birth:** Bansbari ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P19))
- **Died:** 10 September 1998 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P570))
- **Place of death:** Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P20))
- **Citizenship:** Nepal ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P27))
- **Occupation:** poet; politician; civil servant ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570#P106))

## About

He published at least 23 volumes of poetry— sixteen in Nepali, and four each in Newari and Hindi. His poems are usually written in metrical verse and are very brief, rarely exceeding a page in length. His early poems are melancholic, pessimistic or revolutionary, in keeping with his incarceration during a time of revolution against the tyranny of the Ranas. His later poems have themes of human love including some eroticism, and natural beauty. He played a pivotal role in the development of Nepali literature, both as a central figure of a literary generation that transitioned it from a more Sanskritic Hindu tradition to a modern one, and through his organisational activities, chief among them, a series of national and international literary conferences.

## Questions

**When was Kedar Man Vyathit born?**  
Kedar Man Vyathit was born on 1914 in Bansbari.

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): Kedar Man Vyathit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kedar_Man_Vyathit) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikipedia (Nepali): केदारमान व्यथित](https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A4) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q12420570](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12420570) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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