Episode 8 - Mashable Pakistan Lab - Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Episode 8 - Mashable Pakistan Lab - Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi, is a renowned Pakistani author, translator and storyteller. As he says on his website; “These interests have converged over the years; one kind helping me discover the other, and taking me a little further into the past.”

His latest book, The Merman and the Book of Power, is written as a qissa genre that originated in the oral literatures of Urdu, Persian and Arabic.

Farooq is also known for working for children’s literature and is currently working on establishing a specialized Urdu language publishing programme. There are three different segments to his on this front and includes; an interactive storytelling and activity based learning programme called Storykit, an online Urdu Thesaurus and Kitab, a publishing house.

His honors include; Fellow, Harvard University South Asia Institute (Spring 2017), finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 for Between Clay and Dust finalist for DSC Prize for Literature 2011 for The Story of a Widow and PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant 2011 for Hoshruba.

In this podcast episode, we talk all things literature and publishing in Pakistan.

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