Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Musharraf Ali Farooqi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan on July 26th, 1968 and is the Essayist. At the age of 55, Musharraf Ali Farooqi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer, translator, and essayist.
In 2012, Farooqi was one of five writers shortlisted for Asia's most coveted literary award.
He is also working on establishing an Urdu language publishing service specializing in children's literature and classics, in addition to my fiction and translation projects.
He founded the KITAB (2012), introduced the Online Urdu Thesaurus (2016), and conceived the interactive storytelling and reading course STORYKIT (2016).
These three projects have been embedded in a children's learning program.
The Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa is his latest book, which will be published in October 2019 by Aleph Book Company.
Awards and honours
- Finalist, 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize, for the novel Between Clay and Dust
- 2011 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for Hoshruba: The Prisoner of Batin, translated from the Urdu
- Finalist, 2011 DSC Prize, for The Story of a Widow
- Fellow, Harvard South Asia Institute, Spring 2017
- Former Member Executive Committee, Board of Governors of the Archaeology and Literary Heritage Endowment Fund of the Government of Pakistan
- PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant 2011 for Hoshruba