Manjushree Thapa

Manjushree Thapa is a novelist and essayist, and has published ten books of fiction, non-fiction and literary translation. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, London Review of Books, and Himal Southasian, among others. Her latest novel is All of Us in Our Own Lives.

From Darjeeling to Aracataca

A novelist on literary homelessness.

Jul 09, 2018

Girls in the war

A visit to the hill districts of Dailekh, Kalikot and Jumla in west Nepal in February 2003, three weeks after the declaration of the ceasefire between government and Maoist forces, reveals that the much-touted female …

Jun 01, 2003

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