Harris KHALIQUE

2015 Resident

Asia

Southern Asia

Pakistan

Urdu

Harris KHALIQUE (poet, nonfiction writer; Pakistan) is the author of eight poetry collections, including Between You and Your Love (2004), Ishq ki taqveem mein (2006) and Melay mein (2012), which won the 2013 UBL Literary Excellence Award for Urdu poetry. His poems have been anthologized internationally. A campaigner for workers’, women’s, and minority rights in Pakistan and abroad, he contributes regularly to national and international news publications. His participation is made possible by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

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A powerful opinion piece in NYTimes on the Dalits' role in India's upcoming elections by activist and novelist Meena KANDASAMY ('09).
Yvonne Adhiambo OUWUOR's new novel Dragonfly Sea is reviewed in NYTimes. Ouwuor, a 2005 and 2017 IWP alumna, is the author, previously, of the epic Dust.
Congratulations to novelist and essayist Beaudelaine PIERRE (IWP '07) for making the final list in the Many Voices 2018 competition at New Rivers Press.
In a New York Times op ed, publisher and novelist Ameena HUSSEIN ('05) offers a sharp analysis of and context for the 2019 Easter terror bombings in her native Sri Lanka.
Ahead of her appearance at the 2019 PEN Voices festival, a funny piece on one of Iceland's literary heroes by Gerdur KRISTNY (IWP '14).

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