- Manjushree Thapa
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Manjushree Thapa 
Born Kathmandu, Nepal Occupation Journalist, writer Nationality Nepali Period 1989 - present Genres novel, short story collection Notable work(s) Forget Kathmandu (2005)
Tutor Of History (2001)
Seasons of Flight (2010)
Influences- Don Delillo, J.M. Coetzee [1]
manjushreethapa.comManjushree Thapa (Kathmandu, 1968) is a Nepali writer.[2]
She 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.[3] After the publication of the book, Thapa left the country to write against the coup. Now she is back in Kathmandu. In 2007 she published a short story collection, Tilled Earth. She has also contributed to the New York Times.[4]
Contents
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)
References
- ^ SAWNET Book Shelf Manjushree Thapa.
- ^ Kathmandu Centre for Social Research and Development. Nepal Studies (2005). Studies in Nepali history and society. Mandala Book Point. p. 459. http://books.google.com/books?id=RV1uAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 5 April 2011. ""Senior" Nepali language writers have not been able to come to terms with the fact that Manjushree Thapa and Samrat Upadhyay have been established as the two important representatives of contemporary writings in English. ..."
- ^ http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/kathmandu_3907.jsp
- ^ Thapa, Manjushree (22 February 2011). "Nepal's Stalled Revolution". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/opinion/23thapa.html.
External links
See also
Categories:- Nepalese writers
- Living people
- University of Washington alumni
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