Sairish Hussain

Nadia Butt (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt)
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Sairish Hussain is the author of two novels:

The Family Tree

(2020) and

Hidden Fires

(2024), both of which focus on Muslim families in Britain. She is also a lecturer in creative writing at the National Centre for Creative Writing in Norwich. Born and brought up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, she has established herself as one of the most promising British writers of Pakistani origin. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Huddersfield and went on to do an MA in Creative Writing. She completed her PhD in 2019 at the University of Huddersfield after having been awarded the university’s Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship. It is during her studies as an MA student that she started working on her début novel, 

The Family Tree,

which is about the widower Amjad and his…

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Citation: Butt, Nadia. "Sairish Hussain". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 October 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15153, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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