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Ulaar, Loo, Ghamkiri, and Sallipir are Pandey’s popular novels.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"9 June 1966","date":"1966-06-09"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Kathmandu","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3037","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Nepal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"writer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36180"},{"text":"screenwriter","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28389"},{"text":"novelist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6625963"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Tribhuvan University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588239","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/tribhuvan-university"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608#P69"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayan_Raj_Pandey","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Nayan Raj Pandey born?","a":"Nayan Raj Pandey was born on 9 June 1966 in Kathmandu."},{"q":"Where did Nayan Raj Pandey study?","a":"Nayan Raj Pandey was educated at Tribhuvan University."}],"related":[{"name":"The Buddha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/the-buddha"},{"name":"Dona Sarkar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/dona-sarkar"},{"name":"Balkrishna Sama","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/balkrishna-sama"},{"name":"Radha Paudel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/radha-paudel"},{"name":"Yogmaya Neupane","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yogmaya-neupane"},{"name":"Bhupi Sherchan","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bhupi-sherchan"},{"name":"Taranath Sharma","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/taranath-sharma"},{"name":"Ambalika Devi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ambalika-devi"},{"name":"Chittadhar Hridaya","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chittadhar-hridaya"},{"name":"Lekhnath Paudyal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/lekhnath-paudyal"},{"name":"Siddhicharan Shrestha","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/siddhicharan-shrestha"},{"name":"Krishna Lal Adhikari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/krishna-lal-adhikari"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/nayan-raj-pandey-bf7c7b6385.jpg","width":500,"height":668,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Neelatmg","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nayan_Raj_Pandey.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Nayan Raj Pandey","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayan_Raj_Pandey","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): नयनराज पाण्डे","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q25620608","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25620608","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Nayan Raj Pandey.jpg by Neelatmg (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nayan_Raj_Pandey.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Nayan Raj Pandey, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Nayan Raj Pandey.jpg — Neelatmg, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Nayan Raj Pandey\". DigiNepal. Last updated 18 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/nayan-raj-pandey. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-18T02:10:49Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/nayan-raj-pandey","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/nayan-raj-pandey","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/nayan-raj-pandey?lang=ne"}}