Dr. Tsewang Yishey Pemba (5 June 1931 – 26 November 2011) MBBS (London) FRCS was the first Tibetan to become a doctor in western medicine, and to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He founded the first hospital in Bhutan. He is also credited for writing the first work of fiction by a Tibetan in English, ''Idols on the Path'', published in 1966, and is also regarded as the first Tibetan to publish a book in English, ''Young Days in Tibet'', published by Jonathan Cape in 1957.
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