Keshab Sigdel Biography

Born in 1979 in Bardiya, Nepal, Keshab Sigdel has had an exciting and varied career in teaching English language and literature, trainers’ training, and human rights activism. He is an MA, M.Phil. in English and has also earned Law degrees from Nepal, India and Sweden.

Mr. Sigdel currently is an Assistant Professor of English at Tribhuvan University and also teaches at the MA English program at St. Xavier’s College, Kathmandu. He is the Vice President of Society of Nepali Writers in English (N/WEN) , and Founding Member of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association. Apart from that, he works as the General Secretary of Literary Association of Nepal (LAN) and works with the Translation Committee at International PEN Nepal Chapter. He is also associated with Amnesty International and has already served as the National Vice Chairperson of Nepal Section of Amnesty International.

His poems and plays are prescribed in University Curriculum and School Level text books in Nepal.

Apart from Nepal, he has traveled to India, Hong Kong/China, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Bahrain, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands to participate in international literary conferences, meetings/ workshops and for study visits.

He is the author of a collection of poems in Nepali, Samaya Bighatan (2007) , and a co-author of a joint anthology of poems in English, Six Strings (2011) . He is also a co-editor of English literary magazine Of Nepalese Clay and Devkota Studies, a bilingual research publication.