Rabi Thapa

Rabi Thapa is a Nepali writer and editor working in English. He is the editor of La.Lit: A 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.

Background

Rabi Thapa published Nothing to Declare in 2011. This debut collection of short stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The following year, Thapa co-founded the literary magazine La.Lit, and is an editor of the magazine as well. In 2016, he published Thamel: Dark Star of Kathmandu, a cultural history of a historic Kathmandu neighborhood.