Shashikala Manandhar (born 1960) is a Nepalese novelist. The first female novelist writing in the Nepal Bhasa language, she also writes in Nepali.[1]
Manandhar was born in 1960 in Nepal's capital of Kathmandu.[2] She is a postgraduate in MS.[1] Her first novel was Shaili, published in 1985.[1] although by then she had published Nami in 1982,[2] a collection of short stories; and other literary publications.[1] On 15 January 2003, Manandhar was received the Ganki-Basundhara Award by the Ganki-Basundhara Award Academy.[1]
