Dhruba Chandra Gautam (Nepali: ध्रुवचन्द्र गौतम) is a Nepalese novel writer.[3] He has authored over 60 stories and novels, most of which address contemporary social issues.[4][5] He is known as Akhyan Purush(towering personality) in Nepali literary circle.
Early age
Gautam was born on 16 December 1943, in Birgunj, Nepal. He used to write songs, poetry and plays from an early age. He grew up reading Nepali classics as well as the Hindi translations of the works of Bengali writers, Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.[citation needed]
In the early 1960s, he moved to Kathmandu and published a poem in the literary magazine Ruprekha and a novel, Antya Pachi(Nepali: अन्त्य पछी, lit.'After the end'). He earned a Master's degree in Nepali. He also taught at Tribhuvan University and some other private institutions. While in Kathmandu, he read the works of European writers such as Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud.[6]
