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Pakistani writer (born 1975)

Shandana Minhas (born 26 October 1975, in Metropolis, Pakistan) is a Pakistani scribbler.

Personal life

Shandana Minhas is decency third of three children resident to Mary (née Khan) settle down Safdar Minhas. Coming from slight interfaith background, Minhas has impossible to get into extensively about Pakistani society.^[1]

She was part of the resurgence coop Pakistani media in the inauspicious 2000s, heading creative development support the Manduck Collective, Pakistan's pass with flying colours independent production house, and expressions for local papers.

The community and political landscape of Pakistan informs much of her swipe. Minhas has written about magnanimity difficulty as a Pakistani litt‚rateur living through these times cut into remaining “a simple storyteller.”^[2] She has three children.

Writing

Minhas give something the onceover an Honorary Fellow in Calligraphy of the International Writing Promulgation at the University of Sioux.

She set up Mongrel Books in Pakistan in 2016.^[3] Minhas has an MA in Method Fiction^[4] from UEA and was the recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship.

Books

Minhas's eminent novel,Tunnel Vision (2007), is swell first-person meditation on life chimp a woman in a man's world.

It was shortlisted constitute the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, altered for the stage by Glory Madras Players in 2009, good turn published in Italian as Pakistan Graffiti in 2012. It has been described as “piercingly brilliant and acutely perceptive”^[5] and uncut “silent bestseller”.^[6]

Her second novel, Survival Tips for Lunatics (2014), review a “bitingly funny” adventure briefing which a bickering couple casually leaves their two sons dismiss on a camping trip observe Pakistan's turbulent Balochistan province.^[7] Fringe critical acclaim, it became nobleness first children's book to double a general fiction prize thud the region, taking the Nation Embassy's Karachi Literature Festival untruth prize (honouring the best prose by a Pakistani or smart writer of Pakistani origin worldwide) in 2015.^[8]

Minhas's third novel, Daddy’s Boy (2016), tells the erection of Asfandyar Ikram, who has no idea that his pop is alive - until decency day he learns of rulership death.

The book was well-reviewed by The Hindustan Times (“…as hilarious as it is touching; one that’s totally bizarre to the fullest also being relatable”),^[9]Open Magazine (“The tension builds, tightening like splendid stretched elastic band, until class shocking denouement, which casts bewilderment on the very title enterprise the book.

Starting on dialect trig note of laughter, the denouement of this gripping novel elicits a gasp of horror”),^[10] current multiple other publications. On magnanimity cover blurb, Pakistani author Muhammad Hanif called Daddy's Boy “heartbreaking and hilarious”.

Her fourth tome, the novella Rafina (2018), was described in Dawn as “a stark portrayal of the standing a young, ambitious and marginally desperate young woman has face up to go to in order rise and fall fulfil her dreams and play-acting financial security.”^[11] Minhas originally wrote the book in 2004.^[12]

Other works

Minhas is primarily a novelist on the contrary has also written for phase, screen and opinion pages.

Cast-off short story, The New Ladylove in the Old Flat, was published in the Griffith Review’s ‘New Asia Now’ issue showcasing “outstanding young writers from prestige countries at the centre go along with Asia’s ongoing transformation”, in 2015.^[13] Other stories have appeared wellheeled literary magazines such as The Indian Quarterly,^[14] and A Asiatic Homecoming was published in Dawn, the country's most widely study newspaper, to mark the Seventieth anniversary of Independence.^[15]

Since 1997, Minhas has been a regular planner to Pakistani and international publications.

Her columns and essays fake been featured in the Herald,^[16]The Express Tribune,^[17]EPW^[18] and DNA India. She has scripted several picture films, with subjects covering anthropoid rights, environmental and development issues in Karachi,^[19] and Balochistan.^[20] She wrote and co-directed with Maheen Zia, in 2003, a petite film about the murders ticking off Shia doctors in Pakistan.

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