Manjushree Thapa
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| Born | 1968 Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Nepali (Canadian resident) |
| Period | 1989 - present |
| Genre | novel, short story collection, essay |
| Notable works | Forget Kathmandu (2005) Tutor Of History (2001) Seasons of Flight (2010) |
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Manjushree Thapa (Nepali: मञ्जुश्री थापा), born in Kathmandu in 1968, is a Nepali essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor.[1]
Biography
Manjushree Thapa grew up in Nepal, Canada and the USA. She began to write upon completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her first book 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. 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 Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.[2]
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. She has also written as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times.[3][4]
During the fall and winter of 2011, she was writer-in-residence at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon.
Bibliography
Fiction
- Tutor of History (2001)
- Tilled Earth (2007)
- Seasons of Flight (2010)
Non-Fiction
- Mustang Bhot in Fragments (1992)
- Forget Kathmandu (2005)
- A Boy from Siklis (2009)
