GOPILAL ACHARYA (BA Hons, MA, TESOL)
ELICOS Coordinator
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Gopilal Acharya is an award-winning writer-journalist and a trained teacher. He worked as Chief Editor of Bhutan’s first English language private newspaper, Bhutan Times, and later founded a weekly newspaper, The Journalist. He has written for CNN, The Straits Times in Singapore, South Asian Monitor in Malaysia, The Telegraph, The Third Pole, and Scroll.in in India.His poetry and fiction have appeared in Asia Literary Review and Himal Southasian.
He is the author of Bhutanese Folktales (From the South and the East), Dancing to Death (Poems), and Byline (Selected Writings, 2001-2019). The manuscript of his debut novel With a Stone in My Heart was longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.
Gopilal Acharya holds a Master of Creative Writing from Curtin University, Master of Global Journalism from Örebro University in Sweden, a Post Graduate Certificate in Education, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Delhi, India.