Manjushree Thapa - The Himalayan Initiatives

Manjushree Thapa
मञ्जुश्री थापा
Born:Kathmandu, Nepal

Occupation: Writer

Nationality: Nepali-Canadian

Literature Genre: Novel, short story, essay

Notable works

Forget Kathmandu (2005)
Tutor Of History (2001)
Seasons of Flight (2010)

Life and Education:

Manjushree Thapa was born in Kathmandu, Nepal. She is an essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor of Nepali descent. Manjushree Thapa grew up in Nepal, Canada and the United States. 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 in Seattle, which she attended as a Fulbright scholar.

She is with International Writers

Literature Work:

Her translation of Indra Bahadur Rai’s There’s a Carnival Today won 2017 PEN America Heim Translation Grant. 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 Letter Ulysses Award 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 Silks: 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 Picpiin 2016, is a novel, All Of Us in Our Own Lives. She has also written as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times.

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