Denis Hale Johnson was an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction. He also wrote plays, poetry, journalism, and non-fiction.
Josip Novakovich is a Croatian Canadian writer.
Donald Heiney was a sailor and academic as well as a prolific and inventive writer using the pseudonym of MacDonald Harris for fiction.
Samrat Upadhyay is a Nepalese writer, born in 1963, who writes in English. Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing and has previously served as the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Indiana University. He is the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal, and came to the United States in 1984 at the age of twenty-one. He lives with his wife and daughter in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nepali literature refers to the literature written in Nepali language. The Nepali language has been the national language of Nepal since 1958.
Nepalese literature is the literature of Nepal. This is distinct from Nepali literature, which is the literature in only Nepali language. The major literary languages of Nepal are:
Owen Philip King is an American author and the younger son of authors Stephen and Tabitha King.
Manjushree Thapa, born in Kathmandu, is a Canadian essayist, fiction writer, translator and editor of Nepali descent.
You Bright and Risen Angels is a 1987 novel by William T. Vollmann, detailing a fictional war between insects and the forces of modern civilization. Vollmann described the book, his first, as "an allegory in part", inspired by his experiences with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. The novel is subtitled "A Cartoon." It is illustrated by the author.
Sarabande Books is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1994. It is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, with an office in New York City. Sarabande publishes contemporary poetry and nonfiction. Sarabande is a literary press whose books have earned reviews in the New York Times.
Roland Merullo is an American author who writes novels, essays and memoir. His best-known works are the novels Breakfast with Buddha, In Revere, In Those Days, A Little Love Story, Revere Beach Boulevard and the memoir Revere Beach Elegy. His books have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, German, Chinese, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Italian.
Quixote's Cove is an independent bookstore located in the town of Jawalakhel, in the Lalitpur District of Nepal. It serves as both a bookshop and a reading library, specializing in English-language literature. It promotes English writing by Nepali authors and has done book tours with Nepali writers including Manjushree Thapa, Sushma Joshi, Samrat Upadhyay, Rabi Thapa and Indian author Namita Gokhale.
Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer, filmmaker based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her fiction and non-fiction deal with Nepal's civil conflict, as well as stories of globalization, migration and diaspora.
Bill Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic.
David George Rubin was an American novelist and translator. He is most well known for his translations of the Indian novelist and essayist Munshi Premchand and the Indian poet and novelist Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
Rabi Thapa is a Nepali writer and editor working in English. He is the Editor of La.Lit, the literary magazine from Nepal, and the author of Nothing to Declare and Thamel, Dark Star of Kathmandu. From 2010 to 2011, he was the Editor of the weekly paper, Nepali Times.
Nayan Raj Pandey is a Nepali writer and screenwriter. He writes stories and novels, as well as screenplays for Nepali cinema. He is known for his representation of contemporary Nepalese society in his novels, presented in a figurative style.
Ellen J. Levy is an American writer and academic who is an associate professor of English at Colorado State University. Her collection of short stories, Love, In Theory, was published in 2012, and her first novel, The Cape Doctor, in 2021.
Pranaya SJB Rana is a writer, editor and journalist based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently editor of The Record, a digital-native news publication focusing on long form reporting, essays, and explainers. Rana was previously Features Editor and Op-Ed editor of The Kathmandu Post and a reporter for Nepali Times. Rana is also the author of a collection of short stories, City of Dreams: Stories, published by Rupa Publications, India.
Sharada Sharma is a Nepali writer and poet. Her debut novel, Taap, won the 2012 Padmashree Sahitya Sammana award.
