Bilal Tanweer

Karachi

Bilal TANWEER (poet, fiction writer, translator; Pakistan) is a writer and translator whose fiction, poetry and translations have appeared in Granta, Vallum, Critical Muslim and Words Without Borders, among others. One of Granta's "New Voices for 2011," a recipient of a PEN Translation Fund Grant and of a Fulbright, he holds an MFA in Writing (fiction) from Columbia University. His first novel, The Scatter Here Is Too Great, appeared in 2013, and was published in French translation in 2014. He teaches courses in creative writing and contemporary literature at LUMS, Lahore.

Bilal is one of the nine original Silk Routes: Heritage, Trade, Practice project participants who met in the Maldives in the spring of 2014 to discuss shared heritages and writing traditions. He is currently conducting a Silk Routes mini-grant with Shandana Minhas entitled, "Silk Routes Residency."

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Prose & Poetry media_image	On Becoming a Writer in Pakistan 2 My graduate training is in the field of creative writing, with a specialization in fiction. During the course of my graduate study, I produced fiction based that was based on Karachi and arose out of the conflicts of... media_text	Pakistan Sa’adat Hasan Manto, widely considered to be the greatest short story writer from the Indian subcontinent, has a story called The Dog of Tetwal. Set against the backdrop of the Partition of India, it tells... media_text
Writing in & of the World: Silk Routes Grant Narrative, Pakistan Two My graduate training is in the field of creative writing, with a specialization in fiction. During the course of my graduate study, I produced fiction based that was based on Karachi and arose out of the conflicts of... media_text	Good Days It’s one thing when you’re cruising on a steady honk, going wham wham past everything, and one thing else when you go slow and easy, reading number plates, matching them with a number inside your head.... media_text	Interview with Bilal Tanweer sr_media_youtube
"To Live," New Writing in Pakistan I was sweating inside my mother’s car in that freak lane, saying to myself, “Come on, come oon,” while glancing in my rear view mirror searching for her female figure to hurry along in my direction. All I... media_text	Silk Routes Residency in Pakistan The Silk Route Residency will be a 2-week rotating residency open to writers from any country legendary traveler Ibn Battuta passed through and noted in his memoir. This first residency will take place in February... media_text

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