Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature In English

Muneeza Shamsie, a writer and critic, is a leading authority on Pakistani English literature. She has edited four anthologies, including the forthcoming In the New Century. Her third anthology, And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women, received the IPPY Gold Award (2009) and the Foreword Bronze Award (2008). Muneeza is the Area Editor for the Literary Encyclopedia, Pakistan’s bibliographic representative for Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly The Journal of Commonwealth Literature), and serves on advisory boards for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the International Centre of Pakistani Writing in English. She has chaired literary prize juries, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia) in 2010 and 2011. Based in Karachi, she regularly contributes to the Pakistani press.