Nadeem Aslam
| Nadeem Aslam FRSL | |
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Nadeem Aslam reading from his new novel, The Golden Legend at Lannan Literary Awards 2016.
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| Born |
11 June 1966 Gujranwala, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Ethnicity | Punjabi |
| Citizenship |
 Pakistan United Kingdom
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| Alma mater | University of Manchester (Drop-out) |
| Period | 1993–present |
| Genre | Novel, Essay |
| Literary movement | Realism, Postmodernism, Imagism, Postcolonialism |
| Notable works |
Maps for Lost Lovers The Blind Man's Garden The Golden Legend |
| Notable awards |
Betty Trask Award |
Betty Trask Award
1994
Author's Club First Novel Award
1993
Encore Award
2005
Kiriyama Prize
2005
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2014
Nadeem Aslam moved with his family to the UK aged 14 when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He later studied biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left in his third year to become a writer.
At 13, Aslam published his first short story in Urdu in a Pakistani newspaper.
His 1993 debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, set in rural Pakistan, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award.
His next novel, 2004's Maps for Lost Lovers, is set in the midst of an immigrant Pakistani community in an English town in the north. The novel took him more than a decade to complete, and won the Kiriyama Prize.
Aslam's third novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008. It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book; but had never visited the country before writing the first draft. On 11 February 2011, it was short-listed for the Warwick Prize for Writing
Aslam's fourth novel is The Blind Man's Garden (2013). It is set in Western Pakistan and Eastern Afghanistan and looks at the War on Terror through the eyes of local, Islamist characters. It contains also a love story loosely based on the traditional Punjabi romance of Heer Ranjha.
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