Manjushree
Thapa
Manjushree Thapa is an author, essayist, and translator. Her books include The Lives We Have Lost, A Boy from Siklis, Forget Kathmandu, and her latest, All of Us in Our Own Lives. Thapa’s essays and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Newsweek, and The Globe and Mail. As a literary translator, she has translated Nepali novels, short stories, and poems into English. Thapa is the recipient of the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, and has lectured at institutions including Cornell University, University of Toronto, and the National Gallery of Canada. Thapa lives in Toronto.
Juror History
Program History
Writer in Residence
2011
Berton House Writers’ Residency- Awards
- Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
- Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
- Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
- Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People
- Weston International Award
- Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award
- Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize
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