Bilal Tanweer

Nusrat Khawaja (Independent Scholar - Asia)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born c. 1983

Places

Born in Pakistan
Active in Pakistan

Activities

Primary

Prose writer
Translator

Resources

Tanweer's Works

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Bilal Tanweer is a contemporary Pakistani writer whose œuvre includes English language fiction, poetry, essay writing, and translations. Significantly, Tanweer’s writing explores the complex challenges presented by life in a mega-city. His acclaimed debut novel,

The Scatter Here is Too Great

(2014), is set in Karachi, the city of his birth, and draws its narrative from the seminal themes of violence and survival. Tanweer is married to Maryam Wasif Khan, an Assistant Professor at LUMS and a scholar of Comparative Literature.

On 27 May 1983, Bilal Tanweer was born into “a very middle-class family” (Tanweer, 2018). The economic and social frustrations of middle-class disenfranchisement and the daily indignities that accost the less privileged strata of Pakistani society, such as

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Citation: Khawaja, Nusrat. "Bilal Tanweer". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 February 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14845, accessed 23 November 2024.]