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Nov 12, 2020 · Today, Pakistanis and members of the Pakistani diaspora have produced numerous award-winning English books that won critical acclaim in Pakistan and worldwide. English is not a foreign language for Pakistanis.
- Mohsin Hamid
- Bapsi Sidwa
- Mohammad Hanif
- Daniyal Mueenuddin
- Tehmina Durrani
- Kamila Shamsie
- Nadeem Aslam
- Khalid Muhammad
- Moni Mohsin
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Born in Lahore, is the author of four novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. His work has been featured in many different bestseller lists and been translated into over 35 languages.
Born in Karachi, Bapsi Sidhwa is an award-winning Pakistani novelist. Grown up with polio, she is Pakistan’s leading diasporic writer and has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the subcontinent’s Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and the Parsi community.
Born in Okara, Hanif is a critically acclaimed author of three novels, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, and The Baloch Who Is Not Missing And Others Who Are. Hanif has written for the stage and screen. The writer acknowledges the difficulties and injustices and are always set in Pakistan.
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Pakistan, Mueenuddin studied at Dartmouth and Yale Law School. His short-story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, has been translated into sixteen languages and won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and other honors and critical acclaim.
Durrani is a Pakistani women’s rights activist and author. Her first book, My Feudal Lord, caused controversy in Pakistan’s society by describing her abusive marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar. Her four novels: My Feudal Lord, A Mirror to the Blind, Blasphemy, andHappy Things in Sorrow Timeshave gotten international acclaim.
Born in Karachi, Shamsie is the author of eight novels, including Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and translated into over 20 languages. A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction. She has also written a non-fiction novel, Offence: The Muslim Case.
Born in Pakistan in 1966 and moving to the UK as a teenager, Aslam left Biochemistry to become a writer. His first novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won a Betty Trask Award and the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. His second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers, which took 11 years to write, won the 2005 Encore Award and the 2005 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Pri...
Born in Swat Valley and raised in the US, Muhammad moved back to Pakistan and fell in love with the country. He’s a business executive running a marketing and brand management company by day and a writer by night. His novel series, Agency Rules, is a journey behind the headlines about Pakistan, questioning everything that has been said about the co...
Born and raised in Lahore, she left Pakistan at the age of 16 to attend boarding school in England and later attended Cambridge University. She returned to Pakistan years later and founded the country’s first nature magazine. Her novels include The End of Innocence, Duty Free, and The Diary of a Social Butterfly.
Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Farooqi is an author, storyteller, and folklorist, and the founder and editor of the Urdu Thesaurus. He has written seven fiction novels in both Urdu and English. He has been critically acclaimed for his work Between Clay and Dust and The Story of a Widow. He has translated many Urdu novels and books of poetry including...
A great deal of Pakistani-English fiction, poetry, and drama has developed in the diaspora, but there has been a very rich and extensive and body of non-fiction work by Pakistani-resident writers despite the impediments of censorship imposed by various governments.
Aug 1, 2005 · Over the next few years, the number of Pakistani English language writers grew rapidly. Adam Zameenzad published four novels and won a first novel award, as did Hanif Kureishi, while Nadeem Aslam won two. Tariq Ali embarked on a Communist trilogy, and an Islam quintet; Bapsi Sidhwa received a prize in Germany, an award in the USA, and published ...
Pakistani English Literature as a multicultural milieu. When we look at Pakistani English literature developed by the writers living within geographical borders of Pakistan and by Pakistani Diaspora
Emerging South Asian diasporic writers writing in English from Pakistan of the last half of the twentieth century are now regarded as pioneers of Pakistani Diaspora of English fiction. This Diaspora can be roughly divided into the pre and post 9/11 writers.
Diaspora writers are authors living outside their country of origin and writing about their experiences, culture, and identity. Pakistani diaspora writers, for instance, often discuss themes related to their homeland while residing in other countries.
