Maruta Kalnins(2016)
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Maruta Kalnins got her graduate degree in Tibetan Language and Literature from the University of Washington, moving to Kathmandu in the early 1980s to finish her thesis. She lived there for nearly twelve years, raising her girls and teaching literary Tibetan for the University of Wisconsin Nepal program. She is currently writing a memoir.
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