Dev Kumari Thapa (14 April 1928 – 5 May 2011) was an
Indian
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Nepali-language writer, who mainly wrote stories.
[उर्वीजा (अनियतकालिक पत्रिका), सीतामढ़ी, समकालीन नेपाली साहित्य पर केन्द्रित अंक, संपादक : रवीन्द्र प्रभात, पृष्ठ 92]
Biography
Early life
She was born on 14 April 1928 (2 Baisakh 1985
BS) in
Kurseong
Kurseong (, ) is a town and a municipality in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Kurseong subdivision.
Located at an altitude of , Kurseong is from Darjeeling and has a pleasant climate throu ...
, Darjeeling, India to father Hasta Bahadur Katuwal and mother Ramadevi Katuwal. She was orphaned at a young age. Her father died before she was born. When she was about ten, her mother died and was raised by her grandmother.
Education
She completed high school in
Darjeeling
Darjeeling (, , ) is a city in the northernmost region of the States and union territories of India, Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the Koshi Pr ...
and then went on to earn a diploma from a 3-year
nursing
Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...
course.
Notable works
References
1928 births
2011 deaths
People from Darjeeling district
Indian Gorkhas
Nepali-language writers from India
Nepali-language writers
20th-century Indian writers
20th-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian writers
21st-century Indian women writers
20th-century Nepalese writers
20th-century Nepalese women writers
21st-century Nepalese writers
21st-century Nepalese women writers
Indian women short story writers
Nepalese women short story writers
Nepalese women short story
writers
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