Nadeem Aslam

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Nadeem Aslam

Nadeem Aslam (born July 11, 1966 in Gujranwala , Pakistan ) is a Pakistani-British writer .

biography

Growing up in Pakistan, Nadeem Aslam came to England at the age of fourteen. His father, a communist, man of letters and film director, had to leave Pakistan for political reasons in order to avoid arrest. The family settled in Huddersfield , West Yorkshire . Aslan studied biochemistry at Manchester University . In the third year he left university to become a writer. He sent the manuscript of his first novel unsolicited. It was immediately accepted and released in 1993 under the title Season of the Rainbow . Nadeem Aslan has since published other books and has won numerous prizes and awards. He lives and works in London.

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Nadeem Aslam published his first short story in Urdu in a Pakistani magazine. His first novel won the Betty Trask Award and The Autors Club First Novel Award . For his second book, Maps for Lost Lovers , it took Aslam over ten years to complete. During this time he lived on prize money from the first novel and various other donations. It was published in 2004 and won the Encore Award and the Kiriyana Pacific Rim Book Prize . The book is about different cultures, identity and religious conflicts and honor killing, revenge and violence. His next novel The Wasted Vigil , published in 2008, describes today's Afghanistan with its turmoil between the Taliban and the West. Atlas für Verschollene Liebende (Maps for Lost Lovers) and The House of the Five Senses (The Wasted Vigil) have been published in German by Rowohlt Verlag .

Works (selection)

  • The Blind Man's Garden . 2013
  • The Golden Legend . Faber, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book Browse Bio
  2. ^ The Independent v. June 11, 2004
  3. ^ Rowohlt Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Aslam, Nadeem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Gujranwala , Pakistan