June 03, 2009

New Words Without Borders: Writing from Pakistan

 

As always, Words Without Borders is a place for the unexpected, a place to flex your brain past the usual Brooklyn-based writer (not that there’s anything wrong with Brooklyn based writers!). This month’s issue is Writing from Pakistan. (did I mention that I’m the blog editor at Words Without Borders?)


Here’s an excerpt from the guest editor Basharat Peer’s introduction:

In the past few years, a wave of brilliant Pakistani short-story writers and novelists writing in English have earned great acclaim across the world, telling the stories of their land and people in different genres and voices. Daniyal Moeenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is an exquisite collection of short stories, bringing to life feudal Pakistan, its seductions and struggles; Mohammad Hanif’s Case of Exploding Mangoes is a savage satire on life in the military and on the late dictator General Zia-ul-Haq; Mohsin Hameed’s Moth Smoke gave us the subcultures of the young, upper-middle class Lahore, and his Reluctant Fundamentalist grappled with questions of terror, suspicion, and fundamentalism.

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Hi, interesting blog. I’m enjoying it a lot, being a literature fanatic.
I found your blog because it was ‘blog of the week’ in the Flemish Newspaper De Morgen. I just thought it would be nice for you to know this.

    – sven (06/03 02:18 PM)



Thanks, Sven. Who knew I’d be blog of the week somewhere, anywhere… Nice to know.

    – Bud Parr (06/03 03:28 PM)


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