Musharraf Ali Farooqi
| Musharraf Ali Farooqi | |
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| Born |
July 28, 1968 Hyderabad, Pakistan |
| Language | English |
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Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani–Canadian writer, translator, and essayist. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. He is the Founder/Editor of URDU THESAURUS (http://urduthesaurus.com) which is provided as a free educational resource featuring only synonyms. Planned features for versions include integrated Urdu-to-Urdu lexicons, bilingual dictionaries, and dictionaries of antonyms, idioms and proverbs.
Farooqi received his early education in Hyderabad, at St Bonaventure's High School. He later attended Model School and College in Hyderabad, Sindh and, afterwards, NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi for three years, though he did not finish his degree.
While working as a journalist in Karachi, he also started a small literary magazine called Cipher in collaboration with his friends, Azhar Ali Abidi and Zainab Masud. This was the period when he started writing stories in English, and simultaneously translating poetry from Urdu into English. His first translation was of a poem by the contemporary poet Afzal Ahmed Syed.
Farooqi is the author of the novel Between Clay And Dust, which was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. His earlier novel, The Story of a Widow, was shortlisted for the 2011 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and considered for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Rabbit Rap is a modernist fable for young adults. His children's books includes the collection The Amazing Moustaches of Moochhander the Iron Man and Other Stories, illustrated by Michelle Farooqi, which was shortlisted for the India ComicCon Award in the "Best Publication for Children" category, and the picture book The Cobbler's Holiday: or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes.
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