Occupation Writer Movies Girl Rising Role Essayist | Name Manjushree Thapa Period 1989 - present | |
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Nationality Nepali (Canadian resident) Genre novel, short story collection, essay Education Rhode Island School of Design, University of Washington Books Forget Kathmandu, The Tutor of History, Seasons of Flight, Tilled Earth: Stories, Mustang Bhot in Fragments Similar People Richard E Robbins, Marie Arana, Sooni Taraporevala, Maaza Mengiste, Aminatta Forna | ||
Manjushree thapa s perspective on nepal with say it hyatt robin stienberg part 2
Manjushree Thapa (Nepali: मञ्जुश्री थापा), born in Kathmandu, is a Canadian essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor of Nepali descent.
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- Manjushree thapa s perspective on nepal with say it hyatt robin stienberg part 2
- Meet the Writer from Nepal Manjushree Thapa
- Biography
- References
Meet the Writer from Nepal: Manjushree Thapa
Biography
Manjushree was born to former governor of Nepal Rastra Bank Dr. Bhekh Bahadur Thapa and Dr. Rita Thapa, a public health specialist. Her elder sister Tejshree Thapa resides in Belgium. She has two nephews Barun and Siddhanta, children of her late brother Bhaskar Thapa and Sumira Thapa. 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. 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 Lettre 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 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. Her latest book, published in South Asia in 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.