Sushma Joshi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sushma Joshi
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 26, 1973(1973-05-26)
Age	51
Birthplace	Kathmandu
Country	Nepal
Birth City	Bagmati Zone
Horoscope	Taurus

Sushma Joshi Biography

Sushma Joshi is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 26, 1973 in Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone, Nepal. Sushma Joshi (Nepali: sussmaa joshii ) (born on May 26 1973) is a Nepali writer and filmmaker who lives on Kathmandu, Nepal. Her non-fiction and fiction deal with the civil war in Nepal and also tell stories about globalization, migration and diaspora.

From 1998 until in 2000 Joshi collaborated with Harvard School of Public Health in implementing in the Global Reproductive Health Forum, an initiative to promote health and rights that was launched within South Asia. She travelled across Mumbai, Delhi and Dacca to establish a wide alliance of partners in the reproductive rights and health network. The group also began re/productions the journal about health and rights in the same period. The research they conducted was cataloged in a library that was digital and given to SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. Bol!, a list-serv that has 600 activists and professionals who work in the field of health and rights, was given to the Center for Women and Development in Delhi.

Joshi received a writer fellowship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2000. In 2005, she received a research and writing fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation. She was awarded a residency at the Bellagio Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, in Bellagio, Italy, in 2006. Joshi was a featured writer at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2009. In 2011, she was an Asia fellow and traveled to Thailand and Burma to do research on a book about Nepali migrants, with support from the Asian Scholarship Foundation. She has also received fellowships from the Toyota Foundation, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, as well as a seed fund from the Hubert Bals Fund in the Netherlands.

In 2004, Joshi had a solo exhibit “Blue Nepal” at Gallery Nine in Kathmandu. The exhibit was of 26 figurative paintings depicting the state of Nepal during the civil conflict.

Sound of Silence (1997) was shown at the New Asian Currents at the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival.

Sushma Joshi Net Worth

Sushma Joshi is one of the richest Writer from Nepal. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sushma Joshi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Joshi was in the USA at the age of 18 to pursue her studies at Brown University. The school she attended graduated Brown University in the US in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts of international relations. She also attended workshops on poetry, autobiography, and fiction as well as courses in documentary production under Tony Cokes, the artist Tony Cokes. From 1999 to 2002 she attended an advanced degree program at The New School For Social Research in New York, where she was awarded an MA in Anthropology. In the summer she was a student at The Breadloaf School of English located at Middlebury College, Vermont, and was awarded an MA at the level of English Literature in 2005. While at Bread Loaf, she studied playwriting with the 1998-1999 Obie Award winning playwright Dare Clubb. She also studied acting and theatre directing in the company of Alan as well as Carol MacVey.

Joshi’s multimedia project named Jumla: A Cyberphoto Installation was selected for the Eighth International Symposium of Electronic Art as well as the ISEA International at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997.

“Water” (2000) part of a series of documentaries on water from seven countries produced by IRC Netherlands and Ton Schouten Productions, was screened on the Q and A with Riz Khan on CNN International, and the UN World Water Forum in Kyoto. WATER has also been screened at Columbia University’s Southern Asia Institute, Flickerfest Film Festival in Sydney, Vancouver Nepali Film Festival, Himalayan Film Festival in London, and other venues.

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In 2008, she joined Chemonics to work in the Nepal Transition Initiative as a media officer, where she became engaged in a broad number of media projects related to the transition from conflict to peace. In 2009, she also headed a project for six months to train 20 journalists from rural newspapers to write on issues of Nepal’s new Constitution. In 2010, she joined the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kathmandu, where she spent the year working on the Nepal conflict report about the violations committed during the conflict with a research team. Between 2008-2010, she also consulted for the World Bank on their countrywide assistance strategy, traveling with the heads of World Bank, DFID and ADB to different locations to document the feedback received from local participants during the meetings. In 2011, she received a fellowship from the Asian Scholarship Foundation in Thailand to conduct research on the Gorkhali diaspora in Myanmar and Thailand.

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Sushma Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nepal. Sushma Joshi celebrates birthday on May 26 of every year.

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.