Manjushree Thapa (born 1968 in

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) is a Nepalese–born

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, fiction

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and

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. She is one of the first English writer of Nepali descent to be published internationally. '' Forget Kathmandu'' and '' The Tutor of History'' are some of her most well known works.

Biography

Thapa grew up in

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, Canada and the United States. She began to write upon completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her first

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was ''Mustang Bhot in Fragments'' (1992). In 2001 she published the novel '' The Tutor of History'', which she had begun as her MFA thesis in the creative writing program at the University of Washington in Seattle, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar. Her best known book is ''Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy'' (2005), published just weeks before the royal coup in Nepal on 1 February 2005. The book was shortlisted for the

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in 2006. After the publication of the book, Thapa left the country to write against the coup. In 2007 she published a short story collection, ''Tilled Earth.'' In 2009 she published a biography of a Nepali environmentalist: ''A Boy from Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung''. The following year she published a novel, ''Seasons of Flight''. In 2011 she published a nonfiction collection, ''The Lives We Have Lost: Essays and Opinions on Nepal''. Her latest book, published in South Asia in 2016, is a novel, All Of Us in Our Own Lives. She has also contributed op-eds to the

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. Her translation of Indra Bahadur Rai's ''There's a Carnival Today'' won 2017

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Heim Translation Grant.

Bibliography

Fiction * '' The Tutor of History'' (2001) * '' Tilled Earth'' (2007) * ''Seasons of Flight'' (2010) * ''All Of Us in Our Own Lives'' (2016) Non-Fiction * ''Mustang Bhot in Fragments'' (1992) * '' Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy'' (2005) * ''A Boy from Siklis'' (2009) * ''The Lives We Have Lost'' (2012) Translation * ''A Leaf in a Begging Bowl'' by Ramesh Vikal (2000) * ''The Country is Yours'' (2009) * ''There's a Carnival Today'' by Indra Bahadur Rai (2017)

References

External links

Manjushree Thapa's website
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