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Sanjay Bista is a writer of fiction in Nepali in the postmodernist tradition. His published works include the short-story collections Jun Jastai Ghaam (The Sun, Like the Moon) and Astachaltira (Towards Sunset). This Place of Mud and Bone (Matako Ghar), his first novel, was shortlisted for the Madan Puraskar, Nepal’s premier literary prize, in 2023. Bista teaches at Kalimpong College in north Bengal.