Shashikala Manandhar

Shashikala Manandhar (born 1960) is an award-winning Nepalese novelist. The first female novelist writing in the Nepal Bhasa language, she also writes in Nepali.cite news|url=http://www.nepalnews.com.np/contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2003/jan/jan16/local1.htm|title=Ganki Basundhara Award given away|date=2003-01-16|work=The Kathmandu Post|publisher=nepalnews.com|accessdate=2008-08-28]

Manandhar was born in 1960 in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu.cite web|url=http://www.layalama.com/writers%20profiles.htm|title=Writer's Profiles|work=Layalama.com|accessdate=2008-08-28] 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 awarded the prestigious Ganki-Basundhara Award by the Ganki-Basundhara Award Academy.

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