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Kashmiri writer based in London From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mirza Waheed is a British novelist and writer. Born and raised in Srinagar, India, Waheed is known for writing that mainly revolves around the Kashmir conflict and insurgency. Waheed is based in London.[1]
Mirza Waheed | |
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Born | Mirza Waheed Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
Citizenship | British |
Education | Kirori Mal College |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and novelist |
Notable credit(s) | Author of The Collaborator, The Book of Gold Leaves and Tell Her Everything |
Children | 2 |
Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Guernica (magazine), Al Jazeera English and The New York Times.[1]
His first novel, The Collaborator, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book award. It takes place in his homeland of Kashmir, torn in conflict between India and Pakistan. Novelist Kamila Shamsie reviewed it for The Guardian and called it "gripping in its narrative drama...Waheed gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself. Away from the rhetorical posturing of India and Pakistan, he reveals, with great sensitivity and an anger that arises from compassion, what it is to live in a part of the world that is regarded by the national government as the enemy within, and by the government next door as a strategic puppet."[2]
Waheed's second novel, The Book of Gold Leaves, was published in 2014.[3] A love story between a Sunni and a Shi'ite in troubled 1990s Kashmir, it was reviewed by Alice Albinia in the Financial Times: "A haunting illustration of how, at the end of last century, normal life became impossible for many of those who call Kashmir home."[4]
His third novel, Tell Her Everything, was released in January 2019.[5] It is the story of a father who is preparing to reveal his own unsavory past to the now-grown daughter that he sent away to boarding school as a small child.[6]
Waheed and his wife have a son and a daughter and he has said that he limits his book-promotion travels in order to stay home in London and care for them. He worked for the BBC for ten years, but quit in 2011 to devote himself full-time to writing and raising his children.[7]
He plays cricket for the Authors XI team, which is composed of British writers.[8]
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