Aatish Taseer

Aatish Taseer (born 27 November 1980), is a British-born writer-journalist, and the son of Indian journalist Tavleen Singh and late Pakistani politician and businessman Salmaan Taseer.

Born in London to a married Salman Taseer and Tavleen Singh, Taseer grew up in New Delhi, before going off to a residential school in Kodaikanal. Later he studied at Amherst College in Massachusetts, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Political Science in 2003.

Taseer has worked for Time magazine, and as a freelance journalist also written for Prospect magazine,The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, TAR magazine and Esquire.

Taseer has written a highly acclaimed translation of Saadat Hasan Manto's short stories from the original Urdu, Manto: Selected Stories (2008).

His first book Stranger to History : A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands (2009), part memoir-part travelogue, has been translated into more than 14 languages and hailed as a 'must-read' for anyone attempting to understand the Muslim world. The book caught the attention of Nobel Laureate Sir V. S. Naipaul, who labelled Taseer 'a young writer to watch' [citation needed]. His first novel, The Temple-Goers (2010) was also very well received; it was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa First Novel Award.

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