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Tahira Naqvi
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Raised and educated in Lahore, Pakistan, Tahira Naqvi is now settled in
the United States. She has been teaching English for more than twenty
years, has taught Urdu at Columbia, and is currently also teaching Urdu
at NYU.
Her short stories have been widely anthologized and she has published two collections of short fiction, Attar of Roses and Other Stories from Pakistan and Dying in a Strange Country. She has just completed her first novel.
Also a translator of Urdu fiction and prose, Tahira has translated Ismat Chughtai's short stories, The Quilt and Other Stories, Chughtai's novel, The Crooked Line, and recently Chughtai's essays, My Friend, My Enemy. In addition, Tahira has translated a collection of short fiction, Cool, Sweet Water, by Khadija Mastur, a well-known Pakistani writer. Her translations of Saadat Hasan Manto's stories were published in 1983.
Currently she is completing a collection of works by Hajira Masroor,
another writer of Urdu fiction from Pakistan, and is working on another
novel by Chughtai.
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Naqvi Online
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Read her story "The Good Wife" in Monsoon Fiction. >>More
Read jazbah.org's report on Naqvi. >>More
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