Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' was one of the most famous figures of the modern Hindi literature. He was a poet, novelist, essayist and story-writer. He also drew many sketches.

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', one of the most significant poets of modern Hindi, was born on February 21, 1896, in a Brahmin family of Midnapore in Bengal (originally from Unnao,Uttar Pradesh).[2] He was also a famous poet of Hindi Kavi Sammelan. Though a student of Bengali, Nirala took keen interest in Sanskrit from the very beginning. In time, through his natural intelligence and acquired knowledge, he became an authority on various languages – Bengali, English, Sanskrit, and Hindi.