Authors: John Freeman
Yasmeen Hameed
, Urdu poet and translator, has produced four verse collections and won the Allama Iqbal Award.
Mohsin Hamid
lives in Lahore and is the author of
Moth Smoke
(Granta/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Penguin/ Harcourt), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2007.
Mohammed Hanif
was born in Okara. A former head of the BBC Urdu Service, he is the author of
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
(Jonathan Cape/Vintage). He lives in Karachi.
Intizar Hussain
was born in 1923 in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and migrated to Pakistan in 1947. He has published six collections of short stories and four novels in Urdu. He is the recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s third highest governmental honour.
Aamer Hussein
was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in 1970. He is the author of five collections of short stories and a novella,
Another Gulmohar Tree
.
Uzma Aslam Khan
was born in Lahore. She is the author of
The Story of Noble Rot
(Penguin India/Rupa & Co);
Trespassing
(Flamingo/Picador)
and The Geometry of God
(Haus Publishing, 2010).
Waqas Khwaja
, professor of English at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, has published three collections of poetry and edited three anthologies of Pakistani literature, most recently
Pakistani Short Stories
.
Hari Kunzru
is the author of three novels,
The Impressionist, Transmission
and
My Revolutions
(Penguin).
Sarfraz Manzoor
is a journalist and broadcaster. He was born in Pakistan and migrated to Britain in 1974, at two. His memoir,
Greetings From Bury Park
(Bloomsbury/Vintage), was published in 2007.
Daniyal Mueenuddin
grew up in Pakistan and Wisconsin. His first
short-story
collection,
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
(Bloomsbury/ W. W. Norton), won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He lives on a farm in southern Pakistan.
Ayesha Nasir
is a journalist based in Lahore, Pakistan.
Basharat Peer
is the author of
Curfewed Night
(Harper/Scribner), a memoir of the Kashmir conflict. He is a fellow at Open Society Institute, New York.
Jane Perlez
is a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for the
New York Times
who has covered Pakistan for the last three years.
Kamila Shamsie
is the author of five novels, including
Burnt Shadows
(Bloomsbury/Picador), published last year. Born in Karachi, she lives in London.
Declan Walsh
is the
Guardian’
s correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan. His book
Insh‘Allah Nation: A Journey Through Modern Pakistan
will be published in 2011 (Random House).
Sher Zaman Taizi
, born in Pabbi, is the author of fifteen books in Pashto and twenty-four in English. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Certificate in 1981 and the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in Literature in 2009.
Green Cardamom
, founded in 2004, is a London-based not-for-profit organization and gallery specializing in international contemporary art viewed from an Indian Ocean perspective. The images in this issue are a collaboration between
Granta
and Green Cardamom curators Hammad Nasar, Anita Dawood and Nada Raza.
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