Manjushree Thapa Biography and latest books by Manjushree Thapa

Manjushree Thapa is a Nepali writer. She grew up in Nepal, Canada and the USA. Thapa began to write for completing her BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her first book is nonfiction titled Mustang Bhot in Fragments (1992). In 2001, she went on to publishing the novel The Tutor of History, which she had begun as her MFA thesis in the creative writing program she attended at the University of Washington. She is best known for her book Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (2005), published just weeks before the royal coup in Nepal on February 1, 2005. The book was shortlisted for the prestigious Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006. After the publication of the book, Thapa left the country to write against the coup. Now Thapa is back in Kathmandu. In 2007, she published a short story collection, Tilled Earth. She has also contributed to the New York Times.

Her works:

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)