Pakistani Writers in English and their Works

Описание: The video discusses famous and popular Pakistani authors in English and their literary pieces. This video is very helpful for student who study Pakistani Literature in English. The ten writers discussed in this video are; Zulifqar Ghous, Bapsi Sidhwa, Tariq Ali, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Moni Mohsin, Mohammed Hanif, Kamila Shamsie, Nadeem Aslam, Mohsin Hamid and Bina Shah.
Ghose’s first novel, The Contradictions (1966), explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life. In The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967) a small farmer tries to save his traditional land from greedy developers. The trilogy The Incredible Brazilian—comprising The Native (1972), The Beautiful Empire (1975), and A Different World (1978)—presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations. Ghose’s other novels include Crump’s Terms (1975), Hulme’s Investigations into the Bogart Script (1981), A New History of Torments (1982), Don Bueno (1983), Figures of Enchantment (1986), The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992), and Shakespeare’s Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies (1993). Bapsi Sidhwa is best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. Tariq Ali’s fiction includes a series of historical novels about Islam: Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1992), The Book of Saladin (1998), The Stone Woman (2000), A Sultan in Palermo (2005), and Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010). These five books are collectively known as 'The Islam Quintet'. Tariq Ali's latest book is The Obama Syndrome (2010).
DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN is the Pakistani-American author. He is a highly popular and praised writer. His short stories are “In Other Rooms” and “Other Wonders”. These two stories were highly appreciated that they were translated into sixteen languages. He won Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Mohsin is working as a freelancer and writes about class, politics, culture, society and lifestyle. Muhammad Hanif is a British Pakistani writer, born in 1964. He is also writes opinion piece for The New York Times. He is well known for his novel that was critically acclaimed “A Case of Exploding Mangoes”. His this book was shortlisted by the “Guardian First Book award”, then also long-listed for the “Book Prize” and won the “Commonwealth prize for Best Book”. He wrote another novel name “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti” that won the “Wellcome Book Prize”. He has been working as the correspondent for the BBC News in Karachi. Also, he has been the writer of drama and the feature film “the long night”. His work is much praised and much of his work was published by “The New York Times”, “The New Yorker”, “The Telegraph”, and “The Washington Post” In 2018, he wrote a fictional novel called Red Birds. Hamid's first novel, Moth Smoke, told the story of a marijuana-smoking ex-banker in post-nuclear-test Lahore who falls in love with his best friend's wife and becomes a heroin addict. It was published in 2000, and quickly became a cult hit in Pakistan and India. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award given to the best first novel in the US, and was adapted for television in Pakistan and as an operetta in Italy. His second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, told the story of a Pakistani man who decides to leave his high-flying life in America after a failed love affair and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It was published in 2007 and became a million-copy international best seller, reaching No.4 on the New York Times Best Seller list.