Shashikala Manandhar (born 1960) is a

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

ese novelist. The first female novelist writing in the

Nepal Bhasa Newar (), or Newari and known officially in Nepal as Nepal Bhasa, is a Sino-Tibetan languages, Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Newar people, the indigenous inhabitants of Nepal Mandala, which consists of the Kathmandu Valley and surro ...

language, she also writes in Nepali. Manandhar was born in 1960 in Nepal's capital of

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. She is a postgraduate in MS. Her first novel was ''Shaili'', published in 1985. although by then she had published ''Nami'' in 1982, a collection of short stories; and other literary publications. On 15 January 2003, Manandhar was received the Ganki-Basundhara Award by the Ganki-Basundhara Award Academy.

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