Manjushree Thapa is a novelist, translator and writer. Her books include The Tutor of History (Penguin, 2001); Forget Kathmandu: An Elegy for Democracy (Penguin, 2005); Tilled Earth (Penguin, 2007); The Country is Yours: Contemporary Nepali Literature (Penguin, 2009); A Boy from Siklis: The Life and Times of Chandra Gurung (Penguin, 2009); and Seasons of Flight (Penguin, 2010)