Sushma Joshi
| Sushma Joshi | |
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| Born |
May 26, 1973 Kathmandu, Nepal |
| Occupation | Writer filmmaker |
| Nationality | Nepali |
| Genre | Fiction and non-fiction |
| Notable works | End of the World |
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Sushma Joshi (Nepali: सुष्मा जोशी) (born May 26, 1973) is a Nepali writer and 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.
End of the World, her book of short stories, was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2009. "The Prediction", another book of short stories that bring together stories of tradition and modernity, was published in 2013. Art Matters, a book of essays about contemporary art, was supported by the Alliance Française de Katmandou.
Her non-fiction reportage has appeared in The Kathmandu Post, Nation Weekly Magazine, Setopati, Republica, Himal Southasian magazine, The Indian Express USA edition, Utne Reader, Ms. magazine, Z Net, The Irrawaddy, Bertelsmann Future Challenges, and other publications.
From 1998 to 2000, Joshi worked with the Harvard School of Public Health to implement the Global Reproductive Health Forum, a health and rights program, in South Asia. She travelled to Mumbai, Delhi and Dacca to bring together a broad coalition of partners in this reproductive health and rights network. She also started re/productions, a journal on health and rights, during this time. Their research was catalogued in a digital library and handed over to SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. Bol!, a list-serv with 600 activists and professionals working in health and rights, was handed over to the Center for Women and Development in Delhi.
In 2004, Joshi joined as staff writer at the newly formed Nation Weekly Magazine, a political news weekly, in Kathmandu.
She also consulted for the UNDP's Access to Justice research program from October 2004, during the height of the civil conflict. As part of a 6-member team, Joshi went to different areas of Nepal to document stories about human rights violations and the erosion of formal and informal justice systems.
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