Uzma Aslam Khan
| Uzma Aslam Khan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | عظمیٰ اسلان خان |
| Born | Lahore, Pakistan |
| Ethnicity | Pakistani |
| Education |
St. Joseph's Convent School St Patrick's High School, Karachi |
| Alma mater | Hobart and William Smith Colleges, University of Arizona |
| Notable works |
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Uzma Aslam Khan is a Pakistani writer. Her four novels include Trespassing (2003), The Geometry of God (2008), and Thinner Than Skin (2012).
Khan was born in Lahore and brought up mostly in Karachi, though her earliest years were nomadic, and also spent in Manila, Tokyo, and London. She received a scholarship to study at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, from where she obtained a BA in Comparative Literature, and obtained an MFA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
Khan’s first novel, The Story of Noble Rot, was published by Penguin Books India in 2001, and reissued by Rupa and Co. in 2009. It was met with positive reviews in major periodicals and newspapers in Pakistan and India – including Newsline,The Herald, Dawn, The Deccan Herald, and The Indian Express–and Khan was recognized as “a voice to watch out for.”
Her second novel, Trespassing, was published simultaneously by Flamingo/HarperCollins in the UK and Penguin Books India in 2003. It was subsequently translated into fourteen languages in eighteen countries. Set in the 1990s during the aftermaths of the Afghan War and Gulf War and completed a few months before 9/11, the book has been called “prescient” for how it illustrates the dark and troubled context of the west’s involvement in the east and a precursor to the post-9/11 fiction from Pakistan that was to come. As Khan puts it “So much of this book is about history coming back to haunt you.”." Writing for Outlook magazine, Nilanjana S. Roy wrote that “While Khan's prose may be subtle, her style is as forceful as any of the great storytellers... Khan is creating a tradition and style of her own as a writer.”Trespassing was shortlisted for the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Eurasia region.
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