Kunzang Choden is a Bhutanese writer. She is the first Bhutanese woman to write a novel in English. Kunzang Choden was born in Bumthang District. Her parents were feudal landlords. At the age of nine, her father sent her to school in India, where she learned English. The Circle of Karma, published in 2005, is her first novel. She has a BA Honours in Psychology from Indraprastha College in Delhi and a BA in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. From 1990 onwards, Kunzang has been wri