Balkrishna Sama

Balkrishna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana or Bala Krishna Sama (Nepali: बालकृष्ण सम; 8 February 1903 – 20 June 1981) was a Nepalese dramatist.

He is considered as one of the trimurti (trinity) of Nepali literature alongside Laxmi Prasad Devkota and Lekhnath Paudyal.

Afterwards, he shortened his surname "Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana" to "Sama" because he no longer wished to be associated with a ruling regime that had once governed Nepal with autocracy.

His dramas such as Prem Pinda, Swasni Manchhe, Buhartan, Tapobhumi, Atyadhunikta, and Bhater present the social context of the Rana era; Mukunda Indira, Ma and Mutuko Byatha show the emotional and romantic sides of Sama's personality.

Birami Ra Kuruwa is another drama dealing with philosophy, while Prahlad and Dhruba are based on religious figures.

He wrote an essay Nepal Lalit Kala on Nepalese art, as well as the biography Hamra Rastriya Bhibhutiharu and the two-part autobiography Mero Kabita Ko Aradhana.