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title: "Jamyang Norbu"
date: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://rationalists.org.uk/contributors/jamyang-norbu/"
post_id: 3459
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# Jamyang Norbu

Jamyang Norbu is a novelist, playwright and a leading political writer on Tibet. His books include The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, Warriors of Tibet: The Story of Aten and the Khampas’ Fight for the Freedom of their Country, Illusion and Reality, Do-Gar, and [Buying the Dragon’s Teeth](http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=8687&t=4&c=1). In 2000 he won the [Crossword Award for English Fiction](http://www.tibet.ca/en/wtnarchive/2001/4/28_1.html), India’s equivalent of the Booker Prize, for [The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes.](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0719556457/newhumanist-21) Visit his blog [Shadow Tibet](http://www.jamyangnorbu.com/).