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Tsering Yangzom Lama

Tibetan novelist

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Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, whose debut novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies was published in 2022. She was born and raised in a Tibetan refugee community in Nepal before immigrating to Canada and then the United States.

Quick facts

Born
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Place of birth
Kathmandu wd
Citizenship
Canada wd
Occupation
writer, novelist, author wd
Education
Columbia University, University of British Columbia wd

About

Lama received a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and international relations from the University of British Columbia , and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She has been a resident at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was a 2018 Tin House Scholar.

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, inspired in part by Lama's own experiences, tells the story of a Tibetan family's journey into exile over the course of 50 years and three generations. The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, and the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023. The novel was awarded the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Fiction.

Questions

When was Tsering Yangzom Lama born?
Tsering Yangzom Lama was born on 1984 in Kathmandu.
Where did Tsering Yangzom Lama study?
Tsering Yangzom Lama was educated at Columbia University, University of British Columbia.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Tsering Yangzom Lama · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q115054477 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Tsering Yangzom Lama.jpg by DeuxPlusQuatre (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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