Bilal Tanweer

2012 Resident

Southern Asia

Pakistan

Asia

English

Urdu

Bilal TANWEER (fiction writer, poet, translator; Pakistan) teaches creative writing at Lahore University of Management Sciences. His short stories, essays, and poetry have been published by Granta, Critical Muslim, Life’s Too Short Literary Review: New Writing From Pakistan, Vallum, Dawn, The Express Tribune, The News on Sunday, and The Caravan (India); his translations from the Urdu have appeared in Words Without Borders and The Annual of Urdu Studies. In 2010 he received the PEN Translation Fund Grant for Chakiwara Chronicles by Muhammad Khalid Akhtar; in 2011 he was selected as a Granta New Voice. He participates thanks to a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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http://columndump.tubler.com

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The work of Can Xue (IWP '92), in particular the recent novels Frontier and Vertical Motion (translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping) is surveyed in The New Yorker.
The Inheritance from Mother, the most recent novel by Minae Mizumura (IWP '04), translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, is reviewed in N Y Times.
The Legend in My Heart (2016), a feature-length documentary directed by Kaitlyn Busbee, with an original score by David Gompper, which covers IWP’s 2014 tour to China to work with differently-abled communities, won the “Best Student Feature Film” award at the 2017 Universe Multicultural Film Festival.
The award-winning Malaysian journalist, editor and writer Rehman RASHID (IWP '01) passed away on June 3rd, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur. R.I.P.
Samuel Kolawole (IWP '15) receives first-ever VCFA Emerging Writer Scholarship for the MFA in Writing and Publishing program.

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