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Uzma Aslam Khan
Uzma Aslam Khan is a Pakistani writer. Her five novels include ''Trespassing'' (2003), ''The Geometry of God'' (2008), ''Thinner Than Skin'' (2012) and ''The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali'' (2019). Personal life Khan was born in Lahore and raised largely in Karachi, though her earliest years were spent in Manila, Tokyo, and London. Her parents migrated as refugees to Pakistan after the partition of India and she describes her childhood as "forcibly uprooted and happily nomadic." Her family resettled in Pakistan shortly before the country's military dictator, General Zia, declared martial law—she has said that these changes, personal and political, were her "transition from childhood to adulthood." She received a scholarship to study at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York (state), New York, from where she obtained a BA in Comparative Literature, and obtained an MFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, US. Career Novelist Khan's first novel, ''The Story of Noble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 27th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a population of over 14 million. Lahore is one of Pakistan's major industrial, educational and economic hubs. It has been the historic capital and cultural center of the wider Punjab region, and is one of Pakistan's most Social liberalism, socially liberal, Progressivism, progressive, and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan cities. Origins of Lahore, Lahore's origin dates back to antiquity. The city has been inhabited for around two millennia, although it rose to prominence in the late 10th century with the establishment of the Walled City of Lahore, Walled City, its fortified interior. Lahore served as the capital of several empires during the medieval era, including the Hindu Shahis, Gha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilanjana S
Nilanjana ( in Sanskrit) may refer to: Entertainment * ''Nilanjana'' (film), a 2017 Sri Lankan film People * Nilanjana Dasgupta, Indian social psychologist * Nilanjana Roy, Indian author * Nilanjana Sarkar, Indian singer * Nilanjana Sengupta, Indian actress and director *Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob, ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in I ..., born Nilanjana Sudeshna, Indian-American author See also * Nilanjan Chatterjee, Indian biostatistician {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Feminist Press
The Feminist Press at CUNY is an American independent nonprofit literary publisher of the City University of New York, based in New York City. It primarily publishes feminist literature that promotes freedom of expression and social justice. The press publishes writing by people who share an activist spirit and a belief in choice and equality. Founded in 1970 to challenge sexual stereotypes in books, schools and libraries, the press began by rescuing “lost” works by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Rebecca Harding Davis, and established its publishing program with books by American writers of diverse racial and class backgrounds. Since then it has also been bringing works from around the world to North American readers. The Feminist Press is the longest surviving women's publishing house in the world. Founding and history By the end of the 1960s, both Florence Howe and her then husband Paul Lauter had taught in the Freedom Schools in Mississi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, '' The Observer'' stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, ''Granta'' has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." ''Granta'' has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature published by ''Granta'' has regularly won such prizes as the Forward Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more. History ''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann (who later became a major contributor to '' Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Massachusetts Review
''The Massachusetts Review'' is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It receives financial support from Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium which includes Amherst College and four other educational institutions in a short geographical radius. History ''MR'' bills itself as "A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs." A key early focus was on civil rights as well as African-American history and culture; the ''Review'' published, among many others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Lucille Clifton, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr. Sidney Kaplan, a founder of the Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, was a founding member of ''MR'' as well; Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, also a founder of Afro-American Studies at UMass, continues to serve as a contributing editor. In 1969, co-editor Jule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AGNI (magazine)
''AGNI'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1972 that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and artwork twice a year in print and weekly online from its home at Boston University. Its coeditors are Sven Birkerts and William Pierce. History and background ''AGNI'' was founded in 1972 at Antioch College by former undergraduate Askold Melnyczuk. After a brief residency in New Jersey, ''AGNI'' moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Sharon Dunn joined Melnyczuk as co-editor in 1977. From 1980 to 1987 Dunn was the magazine's editor, first in Cambridge, then for three years in Western Massachusetts. In fall of 1987 Melnyczuk resumed editorship, and ''AGNI'' relocated to Boston University, later moving into the former offices of '' The Partisan Review'' at 236 Bay State Road. In July 2002 Sven Birkerts assumed the editorship, and after fifteen years as senior editor, William Pierce joined Birkerts as coeditor in 2019. The magazine receives support from the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif (born November 1964) is a British-Pakistani writer and journalist''.'' His work has been published by ''The New York Times'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Washington Post''. Hanif worked as a correspondent for the BBC News based in Karachi and was the writer of a feature film about the city, ''The Long Night.'' Hanif has written two novels, '' A Case of Exploding Mangoes''. and '' Our Lady of Alice Bhatti'', as well as a play, ''The Dictator's Wife,'' which was staged at the Hampstead Theatre. Life He was born in Okara, Punjab. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. He initially worked for Newsline and wrote for ''The Washington Post'' and ''India Today''. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. In 1996, he moved to London to work for the BBC. Later, he became the head of the BBC's Urdu service in London. He moved back to Pakistan in 2008. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra (born 9 February 1969) is an Indian essayist, novelist, and socialist. His non-fiction works include ''Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond'', along with ''From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia'', and ''A Great Clamour: Encounters with China and Its Neighbours'', and he has published two novels. He is a prolific contributor to periodicals such as ''The Guardian'', ''The New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'' and the '' New York Review of Books'' and was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. His writings have led to a number of controversies, including disputes with Salil Tripathi, Niall Ferguson, and Jordan Peterson. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014 and the Weston International Award in 2024. Early life and education Mishra was born in Jhansi, India. His father was AK Mishra a PWI in Indian railway and trade unionist after his prosperous Brahmin family lost so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karachi Literature Festival
Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) is an annual international literary festival held in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the first festival of its kind in Pakistan. It is one of the world's youngest and fastest growing literary festivals. Till 2019, ten festivals have been held. About Karachi Literature Festival The First Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) was organised by Oxford University Press (Pakistan) in collaboration with British Council in March 2010. Inspired by the success of the first two festivals (2010 and 2011), the Children's Literature Festival (CLF) was launched at the end of 2011. Thus the momentum that began in Pakistan with KLF leading, also saw the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) being launched in 2013, further followed by the Teachers' Literature Festival in 2014, and many others following their example. This momentum reflects the depth of Pakistan's literary and cultural roots, and the desire and energy to celebrate the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSC Prize For South Asian Literature
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South AsiaNote: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Afghanistan. See Eligibility Criteria. themes such as culture, politics, history, or people. It is for an original full-length novel A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ... written in English, or translated into English. The award is for novels published in the year preceding the judging of the prize. The winner receives 25,000 USD. The DSC Prize was instituted by Surina Narula and Manhad Narula in 2010. Its stated purpose is to showcase the best writing about the South Asian region and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Asian Literary Prize
The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. It is awarded to writers who are citizens or residents of one of the following 34 (out of 50) Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, The Maldives, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.. Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved May 17, 2011. Submissions are invited through publishers who are entitled to each submit two novels by August 31 each year. Entry forms are available from May. From 2010 to 2012, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 30,000 to the author and an additional USD 5,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
