Pakistan is known for its Urdu literature but, in recent years, the country has also produced a number of promising English writers. Writing Pakistan: Conversations on Identity, Nationhood and Fiction (HarperCollins, 2016) by Mushtaq Bilal is an upcoming collection of interviews with Pakistani English novelists including Bapsi Sidhwa, Mohsin Hamid, Kamila Shamsie and Mohammed Hanif, among other big names. Some of the issues Bilal discusses with them are self-censorship, the intended audiences of these writers, and the politics of literary representation.

Mushtaq Bilal