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English-language writers from Pakistan
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The list English-language writers from Pakistan includes
Bapsi Sidhwa, Asghar Khan, Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Mushahid Hussain Syed and Kamila Shamsie.
The list consists of 29 members
and 1 sublist.
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Country in South Asia
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Bapsi Sidhwa
Pakistani, Writer
Overview: Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; 11 August 1938 – 25 December 2024) was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.Date of birth: 11 August 1938Date of death: 25 December 2024Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: WriterGender: Female
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Asghar Khan
Pakistani Air Force air marshal
Overview: Mohammad Asghar Khan (Urdu: اصغر خان 17 January 1921 – 5 January 2018), was a Pakistani politician and an autobiographer, later a dissident serving the cause of pacifism, peace, and human rights ...Date of birth: 17 January 1921Date of death: 5 January 2018Age: 96 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: MilitaryGender: Male 0
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Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Pakistani writer
Overview: Zaib-un-Nissa (Bengali: জেবুন্নেসা হামিদুল্লাহ; transliterated Zeb-un-Nissa, Zaibunnissa, Zaibun Nisa, Zaibunisa, Zaib-un-Nisa, Zebunnissa, Zeb-un-Nisa) Hamidullah (Urdu: زیب النساء حمیداللہ; 25 ...Date of birth: 25 December 1921Date of death: 10 September 2000Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: JournalistGender: Female 0
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Ali Muhammad Rashidi
Pakistani politicianOverview: Pir Ali Muhammad Rashidi (Urdu: پیر علی محمد راشدی ,1905–1987) was a Pakistani politician, scholar, bureaucrat, journalist and well-known writer. He was from Rashidi Syed, those are calculated ...Date of birth: 5 August 1905Date of death: 14 March 1987Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Activist 0
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Mushahid Hussain Syed
Pakistani politician
Overview: Mushahid Hussain Syed (Urdu: مشاہد حسین سید; b. 1953) is a Pakistani politician, and journalist who is currently the Pakistan Senator from the Islamabad Capital Territory on the platform of the Pakistan ...Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Politician 0
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Muneeza Shamsie
Pakistani writerOverview: Muneeza Shamsie born 1944 is a Pakistani writer, critic, literary journalist, bibliographer and editor. She is author of a literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani English Literature ...Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Journalist 0
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Bina Shah
Pakistan LiteratureOverview: Bina Shah (born in 1972) is a Pakistani writer, columnist and blogger living in Karachi. 0
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Ali Sethi
Pakistani-American singer and authorOverview: Ali Sethi (Urdu/Punjabi: علی سیٹھی; ; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer and writer. Sethi was globally recognized for his first published novel, The Wish Maker. 0
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Kamila Shamsie
Pakistani writer
Overview: Kamila Shamsie (born 13 August 1973) is a British Pakistani writer and novelist who is known for her award-winning novel Home Fire. 0
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Daniyal Mueenuddin
American academicOverview: Daniyal Mueenuddin (Urdu: دانیال معین الدین) (born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author who writes in English. His short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, has been translated into ... 0
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Uzma Aslam Khan
Writer
Overview: Uzma Aslam Khan is a Pakistani writer. Her five novels include Trespassing (2003), The Geometry of God (2008), Thinner Than Skin (2012) and The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali (2019). 0
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Najam Sethi
Pakistani journalist
Overview: Najam Aziz Sethi (Punjabi: نجم سیٹھی; born c. 20 May 1948) is a Pakistani journalist, businessman and a former marxist who is also the founder of The Friday Times and Vanguard Books. Previously, as an ... 0
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Dawar Khan
Pakistani writer, researcher, and poet (1940–2018)
Overview: Professor Dawar Khan Daud (16 February 1940 – 3 June 2018) was a Pakistani folklorist, writer, poet, researcher, lecturer, member of Pashto Adabi Board (PAB) and president of Rahman Baba Adabi Jirga (RAJ) ...Date of birth: 16 February 1940Date of death: 3 June 2018Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: EnglishOccupation: Poet 0
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Nisar Muhammad Khan
Pakistani playwright, scriptwriter, and broadcaster (1942–2018)
Overview: Nisar Muhammad Khan (January 1942 – 7 September 2018) was a Pakistani playwright, scriptwriter, broadcaster, and director of the Radio Pakistan. Besides contributing to Pashto language and culture, he ...Date of birth: January 1942Date of death: 7 September 2018Age: 76 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Playwright 0
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Shandana Minhas
Pakistani writer (born 1975)Overview: Shandana Minhas (born 26 October 1975, in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer. 0
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Overview: Adnan Haider (born 1979), more commonly known as Adnan Randhawa, is a Pakistani politician, columnist, civil and human-rights campaigner and lawyer.Date of birth: 1979Age: 45 0
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Nida Jay
Pakistani novelist (born 1985)
Overview: Nida Jay (born September 2, 1985) is a Pakistani novelist who writes in the English language. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Dunnen First Novel Prize. The debut ... 0
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Hamza Alavi
SociologistOverview: Hamza Alvi (10 April 1921 – 1 December 2003) was a Marxist academic sociologist and activist.Date of birth: 10 April 1921Date of death: 1 December 2003Age: 82 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Writer 0
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H. M. Naqvi
Pakistani writerOverview: H.M. Naqvi (born 1973) is a novelist (currently based in Karachi) who is the author of Home Boy, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 0
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Khursheed Kamal Aziz
historianOverview: Khursheed Kamal Aziz (Urdu: خُورشِید کمال عزِیز, 1927–2009) better known as K. K. Aziz, was a Pakistani historian, admired for his books written in the English Language. However, he also wrote ...Date of birth: 11 December 1927Date of death: 15 July 2009Age: 81 (age at death)Nationality: PakistaniOccupation: Writer 0
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