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Taking care of art: Philippe Van Cauteren and the Kathmandu Triennale

La.Lit | March 20, 2017

The Triennale is like a pumping system to show the potential of the arts in other industries in the city.

The International Writing Program and La.Lit’s Translation Workshops

La.Lit | December 9, 2014

As part of Silk Routes: Heritage, Trade, and Practice a project managed by the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, La.Lit is happy to announce a call for applications for writers and translators in Nepal who can work from Nepali or other regional languages into English or vice-versa. Interested writers and translators are […]

Coaxing the muses: an interview with Sujan Chitrakar

La.Lit | January 18, 2013

It was a pleasant September evening. The sun was setting and the lights around Thamel were starting to flicker. We came upon Sujan Chitrakar in front of a small thangka store, and interrupted his perusal of an intricately designed Mandala. One thing led to another, hours were adjusted and soon enough we were sipping some

A Nepali dimension

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Gorkhas Imagined: Indra Bahadur Rai in translation translated by Anmole Prasad, Dorjee Tshering Lepcha & Michael Hutt Mukti Prakashan,
2010 Indra Bahadur Rai, the Darjeeling-based Nepali-language writer, has