WNadya A.R. is a Pakistani author. Nadya is a lifelong learner and educationalist. She is a dreamer and dreams of a more peaceful and tolerant world for everyone. Her greatest inspiration is her father, Dr Arshad Malik, and his compilations of beautiful Urdu poetry. Nadya's dreams and vision are fuelled by her diverse reading and authors across the globe. She loves learning about art, history, different cultures and exploring the world. She is a meticulous researcher, and her favorite places are cafes and libraries-where she can spend hours jotting notes and organizing information. Nadya collects notebooks and actually writes her entire first draft in her unusual, carefully selected journals. Her desk is surrounded by wooden and porcelain animals, beautiful pens, colorful folders, scented candles and inspiring quotations-which motivate her to write regularly. Nadya loves nature, long walks, fresh air, plenty of sunshine-and the ability to wake up in the morning like a child-free to discover the joys and wonders of a new day.
WMazhar Hussain Abro is a Sindhi short story writer, novelist and poet.
WNadeem Aslam FRSL is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist. His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award. His critically acclaimed second novel Maps for Lost Lovers won Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; it was shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award, among others. Colm Tóibín described him as "one of the most exciting and serious British novelists writing now".
WMirza Athar Baig is a Pakistani novelist, playwright and short story writer. He has been associated with the Department of Philosophy, at the Government College University in Lahore. His fiction works include the novel Ghulam Bagh, considered one of the central works of literature in the Urdu language.
WIdris Azad on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction, journalism, critic, poetry, philosophy, mysticism and art. He is teacher of logic and philosophy at International Islamic University, Islamabad. Idrees Azad is also associated with Pakistan Film Industry. He is Head of the Department of VFX & CGI at Paragon Academy of Performing Arts, Shabab Noor Studio, Lahore and assists the director Syed Noor in film making as well.
WAziz Ahmad was a noted Urdu poet, short story writer, novelist, translator, historian, research scholar, Iqbal scholar and critic from Pakistan. His work in Islamic history is considered significant.
WFatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer. Born in Kabul, she is daughter of Murtaza Bhutto, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister and President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. She is a critic of her aunt Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of being involved in her father's murder.
WPervez Bilgrami is a Pakistani writer from Karachi. He has been an editor of Sachi Kahanian Digest for the last 20 years. He currently works as an editor for Sargazusht (سرگزشت).
WMuhammad Asim Butt is an Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist. He has published three novels and two collections of short stories along with a number of books translated from English into Urdu and vice versa. Butt also writes in English.
WRazia Butt was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists, and have been dramatised in movies and television plays.
WMuhammad Usman Diplai, popularly known as Diplai, was a figure of Sindhi literature and journalism. He was awarded Pride of Performance for his works by President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf on 23 March 2004.
WAltaf Fatima was a Pakistani Urdu novelist, short story writer, and teacher. Born in Lucknow, she moved to Lahore during the Partition, earning MA and BEd from the University of Punjab. Her novel Dastak Na Do is regarded as one of the defining works in the Urdu language. An adaptation was presented on Pakistan television and an abridged translation was serialised by the Karachi monthly, Herald. In 2018, Fatima received the KLF Urdu Literature award at the 9th Karachi Literature Festival for her book, Deed Wadeed. She died on 29 November 2018 without being clinically ill.
WZulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. He is a resident of Texas, his works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism.
WMohsin Hamid is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and Exit West (2017).
WMohammed Hanif is a British Pakistani writer and journalist who writes a monthly opinion piece in The New York Times.
WAbdullah Hussain, was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Rawalpindi.
WIbn-e-Safi was the pen name of Asrar Ahmad, a best-selling and prolific fiction writer, novelist and poet of Urdu from Pakistan. The word Ibn-e-Safi is an Arabic expression which literally means Son of Safi, where the word Safi means chaste or righteous. He first wrote from the British India of the 1940s, and later Pakistan after the independence of British India in 1947.
WKazi Abdul Jaleel, popularly known as Amar Jaleel, is a Sindhi fiction writer and a columnist whose columns appear in various Sindhi, Urdu and English-language dailies of Pakistan. He has authored 20 books, and received awards including Pride of Performance (Pakistan), and Akhal Bharat Sindhi Sahat Sabha National Award (India).
WNida Jay is a Pakistani novelist who writes in the English language. She is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Dunnen First Novel Prize. The debut novel Heart of Eternity published by Mirador has gained worldwide plaudits and recognition making Jay an influential name in philosophical and religious literature. Jay is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is also a member of the Stanford University vibrant group of literary scholars
WKhadija Mastoor was a Pakistani short story writer and novelist who was highly regarded in Urdu literature. Her novel Aangan is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urdu literature, which has also been made into a television drama. Her younger sister Hajra Masroor was also a short story writer while poet, playwright and newspaper columnist Khalid Ahmad was her younger brother.
WMumtaz Mufti, was a writer from Pakistan.
WAhmad Nadeem Qasmi born Ahmad Shah Awan on 20 November 1916 – died 10 July 2006, was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art, and was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. His poetry was distinguished by its humanism, and his Urdu afsana work is considered by some second only to Munshi Prem Chand in its depiction of rural culture. He was also editor and publisher of the literary magazine Funoon for almost half a century. He received awards such as the Pride of Performance in 1968 and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1980 for his literary work.
WBano Qudsia, also known as Bano Aapa, was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. Qudsia also wrote for television and stage in both Urdu and Punjabi languages. Her play Aadhi Baat has been called "a classic play". Bano Qudsia died in Lahore on 4 February 2017.
WBrigadier Siddique Salik, SI(M), was a one-star rank general in the Pakistan Army, combat artist, humorist, novelist, and a memoirist who served as 8th Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations from 1985 until his death in 1988 in the plane crash in Bahawalpur with then President. . In addition, he also authored two eyewitnessed books on the liberation war took place in East-Pakistan, giving accounts of politics and strategies involving the breakup of nation's unity that culminated the creation of modern-day Bangladesh.
WKamila Shamsie FRSL is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is known for her award-winning novel Home Fire.
WBapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani American novelist of Gujarati Parsi descent who writes in English and is resident in the United States.
WMustansar Hussain Tarar S.I. is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, mountaineer, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor.