Zafar Anjum January 22, 2015 Authors

Mushtaq Bilal joins Kitaab as Editor-at-large, Pakistan

Mushtaq Bilal has joined the Team Kitaab as Editor-at-Large, Pakistan.

Mushtaq Bilal is a doctoral candidate at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. His reviews, essays, translations, blogs, and interviews have appeared in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Postcolonial Text, Contemporary South Asia, the Annual of Urdu Studies, The News on Sunday, Dawn Books and Authors, and the European Graduate School’s website. Currently, he is working on a collection of interviews with Pakistani English fiction writers and is translating Ikramullah’s Urdu fiction into English.

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Rafiq Ebrahim on October 30, 2016 at 4:39 pm
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Your book is really thought-provoking, but mention about some of the Pakistani English writers who have written books and novels depicting ordinary people’s lives and their struggles are sadly missing., e.g. My novel – BEYOND THE CRUMBLING HEIGHTS (Colors in the life of a Pakistani slum boy) published in USA in 2009 and available at amazon.com and other online book stores. This novel did deserve to be commented in your book.
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Writing Pakistan: Conversations on Identity, Nationhood and Fiction – Nadia B. Ahmad on December 4, 2016 at 1:20 pm
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[…] Mushtaq Bilal has culled together the first collection of interviews with Pakistani novelists writing in English to see how cultural identities inform fiction in Writing Pakistan: Conversations on Identity, Nationhood, and Fiction (HarperCollins India). Even though I never quite veered into fiction writing, I had majored in Comparative Literature in college. I also wrote my honor thesis on Indo-Anglian literature of the post-Partition period from 1947 to 1997. The Partition being the splitting of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan. […]

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