Kirat received the Rashtrapari Sikshak Award in 1994.[1] He received the Sahitya Akademi Award for outstanding contribution to Nepali literature in 2008 for his work on Kehi Namileka Rekhaharu.[2] He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Gorkha Territorial Administration for outstanding contribution to Nepali literature.
Along with his own writings, Kirat was a publisher in his early life. He published numerous books of eminent Nepali authors in the 1950s and 1960s when Nepali books were published from Varanasi.
The 10 published short-story anthologies penned by Kirat are: Chaukidar (1953), Abhaginiko Sathi (1955), Binayo (1956), Bijay (1965), Batuwa (1957), Aandhibehri (1961), Pankhee (2000), Taha Namileka Rekhaharoo-1 (2006), Taha Namileka Rekhaharoo-2 (2007), Hiking (2010).
Born 1919, Kirat began writing at the age of 15. He favored writing about the lifestyle of the middle-class, and his first story was published in "Sarada," then Nepal'sJournal/Magazine in 1934. Kirat later became a literary publisher, and established the publishing house"Nav Yug Pustak Mandir". He promoted Nepali writers such as Lt. Indra Bahadur Rai, Hari Bhakhta Katuwal, Chandra Sanha Pradhan, and Nar Bahadur Dahal .[3]
Kirat passed away on 15 July 2019 at age 101 in the Malbazaar sub-divisional hospital in the Dooars.[4] Many senior writers of Nepali literature, political leaders, and social activists expressed their condolences to his family and attended his funeral service.