Lalit Magazine

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Lalit Magazine is a primarily English-language literary magazine that publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, photography, interviews and graphic art from Nepal and South Asia.. The magazine takes its name from the Nepal Bhasa word 'Lalit', roughly translating to 'beautiful art'. It is based out of Lalitpur, Nepal and is published by Safu, an independent publishing house

Lalit has been edited by writer and editor Rabi Thapa since its founding and has so far published nine bi-annual volumes, in addition to maintaining a website that uploads periodic content. Each volume contains fiction, non-fiction, translations and reviews, all centered around a loose theme. For instance, the eighth volume, which was guest edited by Canadian-Nepali writer Manjushree Thapa, was focused on translations from languages other than Nepali, but from Nepal. While the early volumes contained a mix of Nepali and English writing, later volumes have been exclusively in English.

The magazine also conducts a biennial writing contest called Writing Nepal, which is judged by Nepali-American writer Samrat Upadhyay. Past winners of the contest include Samyak Shertok, Pranaya Rana and Dipesh Risal.

In May 2020, the magazine started a podcast series with conversations between its "floating pool of editors".

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