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Nepalese–born Canadian writer (born 1968)

Manjushree Thapa (born 1968 in Kathmandu) is a Nepalese–born Canadianessayist, fiction writer, translator and editor.^[1] She is one of the first English writers of Nepali descent to be published internationally. Forget Kathmandu and The Tutor of History are some of her most well-known works.

Biography

Manjushree Thapa was born in 1968 in Kathmandu to former Foreign Minister and Nepal Rastra Bank governor Bhekh Bahadur Thapa and public health expert Dr. Rita Thapa. She grew up in Nepal, Canada and in United States.^[2] 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 best k