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Binod Prasad Dhital was a notable writer, poet, and novelist of Nepal. .

Life
He was born in Tripureshwor, Kathmandu,Nepal, to Bhairab Prasad Dhital and Hutasan Kumari on June 10th, 1923, and died on August 16th, 2007. He served as a government employee as a Law Secretary at the Ministry of Law and devoted full-time to his passion for Nepali literature after retirement.

Works
He has written many novels in the Nepali language. Some of his works include Ujyalo Hunu Aghi, Yojangandha, Acharya Bisnugupt Chanakya (Nepali Translation), Astauna Lageka Chandramasanga, and a Nepali translation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”. One of his novels, Yojangandha, was published by Sajha Prakashan in 1995. It is based on the Hindu epic Mahabharata. For his 1995 novel Yojangandha, he received the Madan Puraskar, Nepal's most prestigious literary award. He also received Sajha Puraskar, a literary award given by Sajha Publications for the same novel in 1995. .