“Each time I put my pen down I feel, I think I am done, and then a new story comes knocking…” Faiqa Mansab (Author- The Sufi Storyteller, 2025)
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Team Kitaab is in conversation with Faiqa Mansab to discuss her latest work The Sufi Storyteller (Penguin India, 2025).
Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. Her first novel, This House of Clay and Water was published by Penguin India in 2017. It was an Amazon Editor’s Pick along with being the Amazon International Women’s Writing pick and was shortlisted for the Getz-Pharma Literary Award and the German Consulate Peace Prize in 2018. The novel has been translated into Turkish and is available as an audiobook by Blackstone Publishing USA.
It has also been optioned for screen adaptation. Faiqa’s work in English has also appeared in Lucy Writer’s Platform, Cambridge; The Missing Slate, London; Medusa, London; and in Punjabi she has written for Barahmah, Pakistan. The Sufi Storyteller is her second novel. She lives with her family in Lahore.
