Pakistan

Azra Abbas

Azra Abbas was born in 1948 in Karachi. She earned her master’s degree in Urdu from Karachi University and went on to teach Urdu literature at a government college in Karachi. Eventually, she…...

Faruq Hassan is an Urdu poet and he has translated several collections of Urdu fiction into English. He taught English at Dawson College and Urdu at McGill University. Now retired, he is co-translating…...

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is an author, novelist and translator. He was born in 1968 in Hyderabad, Pakistan, and now divides his time between Toronto, New York, and Karachi. His novel The Story of a Widow…...

Altaf Fatima

Altaf Fatima was born in Lucknow. Upon Partition in 1947 she migrated to Pakistan and settled in Lahore where she earned an MA and BEd from the University of Punjab. She is counted as a leading figure…...

Intizaar Hussain

Intizaar Hussain is the most eminent living Urdu fiction writer. He was born in Dibai, Bulandshahr, India, but migrated to Pakistan in 1947. He writes short stories and novels in Urdu, and newspaper columns…...

Fahmida Riaz

Fahmida Riaz is a noted Pakistani feminist and a published poet in Urdu. She is also the author of a highly acclaimed novella, Godavari. Her most recent work is a volume of short stories, Khat-e Marmuz.…...

Vali Ashraf Sabuhi

Vali Ashraf Sabuhi (1905–90) was a writer from an elite Delhi Muslim family. He migrated to Pakistan at its creation in 1947, and spent the rest of his life there. "Sahib-e-alam" is translated from…...

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar (1920–2002) was born in Allahbad Tehsil of the state of Bahawalpur. He studied in Bahawalpur and Lahore and in 1946 went to England for his postgraduate training in electrical…...

Sehba Sarwar

Sehba Sarwar's first novel Black Wings was published in 2004 (Alhamra Publishing). Her essays, poems and stories largely deal with issues of gender and displacement, and have been published in anthologies…...

Azhar Abidi

Azhar Abidi was born in Pakistan in 1968. After studying in England and Australia, he co-founded the literary magazine Cipher, which published the works of Pakistani writers writing in English from Karachi,…...