Asit Rai (Nepali: असीत राई) is a writer and novelist in the

Nepali language Nepali (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a '' lingua franca''. Nepali has official status in the Indian st ...

from

Darjeeling district Darjeeling District is the northernmost district of the state of West Bengal in eastern India in the foothills of the Himalayas. The district is famous for its hill station and Darjeeling tea. Darjeeling is the district headquarters. Kurse ...

, India. He received the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 1981 for his novel ''Naya Kshitij Ko Khoj''.

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Nepali-language writers from India Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Nepali People from Darjeeling district Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indian Gorkhas Rai people {{India-writer-stub