COLUMN: PAKISTAN'S ENGLISH WRITERS - Newspaper
I maintain that, even today, when there are more of us producing literature in English, the best literary talent in Pakistan is still manifested through our native languages — Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto and others. Barring some truly exceptional writers who have made a name for themselves nationally and internationally — Bapsi Sidhwa, Jamil Ahmed, Uzma Aslam Khan, Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Hanif, Kamila Shamsie, H.M. Naqvi and Bina Shah — the bulk of our creative writing in English, until the recent past, gave an impression of being contrived, affected, borrowed and superficial. Our wri...
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