Emran Mian (born 1978), who writes under the

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Kamran Nazeer, is a British Pakistani author and civil servant.

Life and career

Nazeer was born as Emran Mian in

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, and was diagnosed with

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at the age of four. He studied law in Glasgow, but after deciding not to become a lawyer, he then went to

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for his PhD and finally joined the British

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as a policy adviser in

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. He now lives in London with his French wife. He is currently director-general of regeneration in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. His first book, ''Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism'', was published in March 2006 under his penname. He is also a frequent contributor to ''

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'' magazine.

Awards and nominations

Mian was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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(CB) in the

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for services to regeneration. In January 2014, Mian was nominated for the Civil Servant of the Year award at the

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Selected works

*''Send In the Idiots: Stories From the Other Side of Autism'', *"The Curious Case of Exclusionary Reasons", ''Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence'', Volume XV, Number 1 (January 2002) pp. 99–124
"Mandarin intellectuals"
''Prospect'' (July 2006)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nazeer, Kamran 1977 births Living people Writers from Glasgow Scottish people of Pakistani descent Civil servants from Glasgow British writers of Pakistani descent People on the autism spectrum British writers with disabilities Companions of the Order of the Bath