Книга: Nadeem Aslam «The Wasted Vigil»
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Серия: "-" A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus'daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. But like Marcus'wife, Zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born. In the days that follow, further people arrive at the house: two Americans who have spent much of their adult lives in the area; a young Afghan teacher; and a radicalized young man intent on his own path. And Nadeem Aslam paints a moving, beautiful and powerful portrait of a land and a people torn apart through love and war. Издательство: "Faber and Faber" (2009)
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Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam (born 1966, Gujranwala, Pakistan) is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.
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Biography
Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He later studied biochemistry at the University of Manchester, but left in his third year to become a writer.[1]
He currently lives in north London.
Writing career
At 13, Aslam published his first short story in Urdu in a Pakistani newspaper.
His debut novel, Season of the Rainbirds (1993), set in rural Pakistan, won the Betty Trask and the Author's Club First Novel Award.
He won widespread praise for his next novel Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) which is set in the midst of an immigrant Pakistani community in an English town in the north. The novel took him more than a decade to complete, and won the Kiriyama Prize.
Aslam's latest novel, The Wasted Vigil, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in September, 2008.[2] It is set in Afghanistan. He traveled to Afghanistan during the writing of the book;[3] but had never visited the country before writing the first draft.[4] On 11 February 2011, it was short-listed for the Warwick Prize For Writing [5]
As writers he admires he has mentioned Vasko Popa, Ivan V. Lalić, Czesław Miłosz, Wisława Szymborska, Herman Melville, John Berger, VS Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, and Bruno Schulz.[3]
His writings have been compared to those by Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kiran Desai and received an Encore in 2005. He writes his drafts in longhand and prefers extreme isolation when working. [6]
Bibliography
- Season of the Rainbirds (1993)
- Maps for Lost Lovers (2004)
- The Wasted Vigil (2008)
- Leila in the Wilderness (short story) published in Granta 112 (2010)
Prizes and awards
- For Season of the Rainbirds
- Betty Trask Award 1994
- The Author's Club First Novel Award 1993
- The Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist) 1994
- The Whitbread First Novel Award (shortlist) 1994
- For Maps for Lost Lovers
- The Encore Award 2005
- The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize 2005
- British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year (shortlist) 2006
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (shortlist) 2006
External links
References
- ^ British council contemporary writers
- ^ Random House
- ^ a b Bookbrowse.com
- ^ BBC World Service, The Word, 14 October 2008
- ^ [1]
- ^ Rees, Jasper (2004-06-14). "Nadeem Aslam". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3619197/Nadeem-Aslam.html. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- British novelists
- Pakistani novelists
- Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom
- English people of Pakistani descent
- 1966 births
- Living people
- People from Gujranwala
- English novelist stubs
Источник: Nadeem Aslam
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