Manjushree Thapa

Manjushree Thapa is a Nepali Canadian author of eight books of literary fiction and non-fiction. She also translates Nepali literature into English. Her non-fiction book Forget Kathmandu was a finalist for 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, as well as numerous grants and writing residencies worldwide. Recent publications include: All of Us in Our Own Lives (2018) and the translation of There’s a Carnival Today (2017) by Indra Bahadur Rai. Her essays have appeared in Granta, The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, Newsweek, and LRB. Thapa lives in Toronto.