Ali Akbar Natiq
Ali Akbar Natiq is an Urdu novelist, short-story writer and poet, born in Okara, Punjab, in 1976.
His writing spans fiction, poetry, memoir, biography and literary criticism. His early books include the poetry collections Be Yaqeen Bastiyon Mein and Yaqoot Ke Waraq, and the short-story collection Qaim Deen.
Qaim Deen, published by Oxford University Press in 2012, received the UBL–Jang Literary Excellence Award in 2013. Natiq’s fiction has reached English-language readers through What Will You Give for This Beauty?, translated by Ali Madeeh Hashmi, and Naulakhi Kothi, translated by Naima Rashid.
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