Nadeem Aslam

Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 1966
Activity 1993-ongoing

Places

Born in Pakistan
Active in United Kingdom

Cultural Identities

British Asian

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Novelist

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Nadeem Aslam is a British writer of Pakistani origin. His first novel,

Season of the Rainbirds

(Deutsch, 1993), about bigotry and violence in a small Punjab town, won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors Club Best First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread and Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Awards. His haunting second novel,

Maps for Lost Lovers

(Faber, 2004), took eleven years to write and contains some truly spectacular writing, imbued with metaphors and rich imagery. The novel explores unflinchingly the crises of migration and displacement and tells of a honour killing in a fictitious Asian working class neighbourhood in Britain. The book won the 2004 Patras Bokhari Award in Pakistan, the 2005 Encore Prize in Britain, the 2005 Kiriyama Prize in the US, and was shortlisted…

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Citation: Shamsie, Muneeza. "Nadeem Aslam". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 March 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11771, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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