Bhutanese Famous Author

 

Kunzang Choden Dzongkha: ཨམ་ཀུན་བཟང་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་གྱི་སྐོར།; born 1952) is a Bhutanese writer. She is the first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English.

Choden was born in Bumthang District. Her parents were feudal landlords. At the age of nine, her father sent her to school in India, where she learned English. She has a BA Honors in Psycholophy om Indraprastha  College  in Delhi and a BA in Sociology from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. She has worked for the United Nations Developments Program in Bhutan. She and her Swiss husband currently live in Thimphu.

Chador Wangmo, a teacher turned writer, has authored fifteen books which include two novels, one anthology of poetry, two chapter books and ten illustrated books for children. Her poems have been translated into Hindi, Nepali, Bangla, Assamese, Khmer and Sinhala Languages. 

She has also facilitated Writer’s workshop for teachers and students in Zhemgang in collaboration with Save the Children office, Thimphu and facilitated the Writer’s workshop for the teachers of Highland organized by Bhutan Foundation. In her pursuit to do her bit in encouraging reading and writing in Bhutan, she volunteers to give talks and do readouts in schools and colleges and in Reading & Writing workshops organized by various groups.

Tempa Tsering (Tibetan: བསྟན་པ་ཚེ་རིང་, Wylie: Bstan-pa Tse-ring; born on 15 May 1950 in Gyangtse, Tibet). He was a former Kalon (minister) at the Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamshala, India and was a representative of the 14th Dalai Lama in New Delhi and member of the Tibetan Government in Exile.