Pushpa Raj Acharya (Pushparaj Acharya) grew up in Nepal and moved to Canada in 2012. Acharya’s first collection of poetry was published in Kathmandu by Fine Print in 2006, as छाया काल, Chāyā Kāla (or Chaya Kal), “The Shadow Time. ” This Nepali language work, illustrated by Anup Baral, is out of print. Acharya recently made it available to readers as a PDF document. Acharya worked as a professional translator and interpreter in Nepal from 2006-2012. His publisher Mawenzi House note that he has written screenplays for films and made documentaries on art, culture, and food. Acharya is also a literary scholar and has taught in universities in Canada and Nepal. He earned a PhD in Comparative Literature and South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto in 2022. His dissertation is entitled The Nation-State of Nepal in Nepali and Anglophone Novels.
Poetry
Dream Catcher
Kathmandu, Nepal: Vajra Publications, 2012.
Anthology (Poetry and Lithographs)
Somnio: The Way We See It
Co-creators: Tiffany Adair (lithographer), Sharmila Pokharel (poet), Yukari Meldrum (poet).
Edmonton: TIPSY Press, 2015.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Somnio: The Way We See It is a book about mediation between images and words, words and worlds, visions and cosmos, and identities and locations. It is a collection of art and poetry translated into each other by an artist and three poets. They explore the visions of transformations in nature, in everyday lives, and in mobility from one culture to another. In their works, a profound meditation on ordinary details creates lyrical dreams, which are in turn embedded in the lines and shadows of reality.
Anthology (Poetry)
Wanderings: An Anthology of Anglophone Nepali Diaspora Poetry
Edited by Asma Sayed, Pushparaj Acharya.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2025.
Contributors include Pushparaj Acharya, Rohan Chhetri, Mukul Dahal, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Anuja Ghimire, Saraswoti Lamichhane, Mukahang Limbu, Nabin K Chhetri, Samyak Shertok, and Y B Shakya.
Selected Criticism and Interpretation
Chilana, Rajwant Singh. “Pushpa Raj Acharya.” In South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 246.
Z1376 .S68 C45 2017
Links
Publisher Mawenzi House