Bilal Tanweer

Bilal Tanweer is a Pakistani writer and translator from Lahore, Pakistan. His novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great was awarded the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in 2014, and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Chautauqua Prize in 2015. He received the PEN Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's novel Chakiwara Mein Visaal.[1][2]

Bilal Tanweer
Born1983 (age 39–40)
Karachi, Pakistan
OccupationWriter and Translator
NationalityPakistani
Notable works
Notable awards

Early life

Tanweer was born in 1983 in Karachi, Pakistan. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University and received a Fulbright Scholarship. He presently resides in Lahore, Pakistan and works as an associate professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is a mentor and organiser of LUMS Young Writers Workshop for young writers in Pakistan.[2]

Works

His writing has appeared in various newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Dawn, Granta, Vallum, Critical Muslim, The Caravan and Words Without Borders. His novel, The Scatter Here is Too Great, was published in India by Random House in 2013. It depicts the event of a bombing at a railway station in Karachi. The story has been told from the perspective of witnesses, victims, family members, friends, associates, and lovers. It was published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in 2014, and in the USA by HarperCollins the same year. Its french version (Le monde n'a pas de fin) was published by Editions Stock in 2014, It was published in Germany by Hanser Verlag in 2016.[3][4][2]

Honours

Publication
  • The Scatter Here Is Too Great (2013)

Translation

References
  1. "Welcome to LUMS". LUMS. 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  2. "Bilal Tanweer". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  3. "Mr. Bilal Tanweer". LUMS. 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  4. Row, Jess (2014-09-26). "'The Scatter Here Is Too Great,' by Bilal Tanweer". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  5. "Pakistan author Bilal Tanweer wins 2014 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize". The Economic Times. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  6. "Kamila Shamsie, Bilal Tanweer shortlisted for South Asia fiction prize". The Express Tribune. 2014-11-28. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
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