Manjushree Thapa

Manjushree Thapa is the author of eight books of literary fiction and nonfiction. She has also translated Nepali literature into English. Her nonfiction book Forget Kathmandu was a finalist in the Lettre Ulysses Award. She has won the Canada Council for the Arts’ Joseph S Stauffer Prize in Literature and the Pen/HEIM Translation Fund, and numerous grants and writing residencies worldwide. Her essays have appeared in Granta, Globe and Mail, New York Times, Newsweek, and London Review of Books.