Manjushree Thapa

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Manjushree Thapa (Kathmandu, 1968) is a Nepali writer.

She grew up in Nepal, Canada and the USA. 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. Her best known book is Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (2005), published just weeks before the royal coup in Nepal on 1st February 2005: after the publication, Thapa left the country to write against the coup. Now she is back in Kathmandu. In 2007 she published a short story collection, Tilled Earth.