National Advisory Board
March 28, 2024 2024-05-07 17:56National Advisory Board
Muneeza Shamsie
Muneeza Shamsie is an Independent Scholar and the author of Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (2017), Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Area Editor of the online Literary Encyclopaedia (https://www.litencyc.com/). She has edited three anthologies A Dragonfly In the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing In English (1997), Leaving Home: Towards New Millenium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001), And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005 India, 2008 USA edition won the Gold IPPY Award and the Forward Bronze Award). Her fourth anthology is to be published shortly. She serves on the International Advisory Board of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre of Creative Writing in English. She has served on the jury of several literary awards and was the regional chair (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009-2010. She contributes regularly to Dawn and Newsweek Pakistan. Website: https://independent.academia.edu/MuneezaShamsie
Navid Shahzad
Navid Shahzad is a Pakistani academic whose remarkable credentials as actor, writer, director and poet have been recognized nationally as well as overseas. Awarded the President’s Pride of Performance for Literature, the Fatima Jinnah Award for Artistic Excellence and silver/gold medals by the Government of Punjab for her contribution to Pakistan Television; she is Distinguished Professor of Dramatic Arts at the Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Her latest venture is a book, Aslan’s Roar: Turkish Television and the Rise of the Muslim Hero.
Shahid Nadeem
Recipient of President of Pakistan’s Pride of Performance award, Shahid Nadeem is Pakistan’s leading playwright. Currently, Executive Director of the renowned Ajoka Theatre and formerly PTV’s Deputy Managing Director, his plays in Urdu and Punjabi have been performed and published in Pakistan and abroad. Acclaimed for his bold themes and commitment to human rights, he has also written for TV and Film. English translations of his plays are published by Oxford University Press, Nick Hern, and included in anthologies published by Sahitya Akademi India and Bloomsbury. He has been fellow at the Getty Institute and National Endowment for Democracy, USA. www.ajoka.org.pk
Naveed Alam
Currently pursuing his PhD in the US, Naveed Alam received an MFA from the University of Oregon. His first collection of poems, A Queen of Ordinary Realms , won the Spokane Poetry Prize. He has translated Madho Lal Hussein, the 16th century Punjabi poet, into English (Verses of a Lowly Fakir, Penguin Classics), while his Punjabi-English bilingual collection of poems, The Others, was published in 2020. His most recent work, a translation of two contemporary Punjabi women poets: Flames Prefer to be Naked: Selected Poems of Nasreen Anjum Bhatti and Sara Shagufta (THAAP, 2021), was supported by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship.
Awais Khan
Awais Khan is a TED Speaker and the award-winning author of No Honour (Orenda, 2021) and In the Company of Strangers (Hera, 2022; Simon & Schuster India 2019). Graduating from the University of Western Ontario and Durham University, he studied creative writing at Faber Academy in London, and is the Founder of The Writing Institute. Awais has delivered talks at Oxford, Durham, and American University of Dubai to name a few. His work has appeared in several anthologies. His short story “The Victim” is longlisted for the Short Story Dagger 2022. He is on the judging panel for the Gwyl Crime Cymru Novel Prize and the Cheshire Novel Prize, and has appeared on BBC World, Voice of America, Dubai Eye, Samaa TV, PTV, City42, Cambridge Radio etc. He is represented by Annette Crossland and can be googled at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmcX4xVtDU and more.
Mina Malik
Mina Malik, a graduate of LUMS, Punjab University and Oxford, is a writer and poet based in Lahore. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the South Asian Review, Vallum and The Aleph Review, amongst other publications, and has had bylines in Scroll, Architectural Digest and a column with The Nation for five years. Mina has most recently co-founded Risala, a forthcoming magazine, and is working on her first novel. https://petersfraserdunlop.com/clients/mina-malik-hussain/
