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Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize – awarded annually for a book-length translation from any language into English. Rossica Translation Prize – awarded biennially by Academia Rossica [ 1 ] to a translation from Russian into English.
Adamjee Literary Award, also known as Adamjee Prize, is a literary award bestowed by the government of Pakistan. It is presented by the president. The award seeks to recognize those people who have made "meritorious contribution" to the literature of Pakistan. [1] [2] It was first introduced by Pakistan Writers' Guild in 1959. [3]
It has been called "India's most valuable literature prize". [2] Rana Dasgupta is the founding Literary Director of the JCB Prize. [3] In 2020, Mita Kapur was appointed as the new Literary Director. [4] The JCB Literature Foundation was established to maintain the award. It is funded by the English construction manufacturing group JCB ...
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Mohsin Hamid (Urdu: محسن حامد; born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), Exit West (2017), and The Last White Man (2022).
Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free ...
A narrative hook (or just hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, and may even be the opening sentence .
A selection from his translation of contemporary Urdu poet Afzal Ahmed Syed's poetry was published by the Wesleyan University Press Poetry Series in 2010. In 2023 he won the inaugural Armory Square Prize for Translation for his translation of Siddique Alam's collection The Kettledrum, to be published in 2024 by Open Letter Books. [5]