Tenzin Tsundue

Tenzin Tsundue is a Tibetan writer and activist, born and raised in India. He studied literature and philosophy at Madras and Bombay universities. The award-winning writer has five books to his credit and his writing has been translated into over seventeen languages. His poetry book, Kora, is in its fifteenth edition. Tsundue combines activism and academia, and tours colleges and civil societies giving talks on writing exile, resistance, culture and identity. His writing has inspired movies, poetry, plays and books. Some of them have been anthologized and are being taught as part of the curriculum in universities in India and abroad. He is one of the most prominent voices and activists for the Independence of Tibet. If his speaking tours took him all over India and twenty five other countries his protest actions landed him in jail sixteen times, including once in Lhasa, Tibet. He sports a red bandana as a sign of his life long pledge to work for the freedom of his country. He lives solely off his writing by selling his self-published books. Tsundue lives in Dharamshala, India.