Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, professionally known as Krishna Dharabasi is a Nepali writer, novelist and literary critic. He has wrote multiple essays, short stories, poems and novels. He won the Madan Puraskar for his novel Radha in 2005 (2062 BS). Jhola, one of his short stories has been adapted into a film of the same title. He is known for using meta-writing style (Leela lekhan) in his fictional works.