writers of pakistan

1. Assignment of Pakistani Literature
Submitted to: - M’am Namra
Submitted by: - Nadia Anum
Department: - B.S English
Roll no: - 57
Semester: - 8th
G,C Women University Sialkot

2. Table of Contents
S.no page no
Introduction 1
Pakistani Literature
Muneeza Shamsie 2
 Life & Career
 Contribution in Pakistani Literature
Tariq Rehman 3
 Life & Career 4
 Contribution in Pakistani Literature
5
Conclusion 6

3. Topic: -
Muneeza Shamsie
&
Tariq Rehman
&
Introduct
ion:-

4. Pakistani Literature:-
The nature of Pakistani literature soon after
independence aroused controversy among writers due to its being centre
heavily on the negative events related to the independence movement.
According to Gilani Kamran GC University, Pakistani literature was
expected to take a new direction along with the new state of Pakistan at
this point, but did not immediately meet this expectation. Saadat
Hassan Manto , a prominent writer of short stories of the South Asia,
produced great literature out of the events relating to the India-Pakistan
independence. His literature is considered to be progressive in its tone
and spirit. According to several critics it had not only evolved its own
identity, but also had played a significant role in documenting the
hardships and hopes of Pakistan in the latter part of the 20th century.
Today, Pakistani literature has taken a shape of its own by depicting the
complex class system and common man. It also has evolved in merging
Urdu literary forms and English literature leading to experimentation.
Many writers of fiction borrow from English and vice versa.
Pakistani literature's main official platform is the Pakistan Academy of
Letters whose work is overseen by a Board of Governors
Muneeza Shamsie:-
Muneeza shamsie is a pakistani
writer, critic, literary journalist, and editor. She is author of a literary
history "Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani English
Literature" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016) and is the
Bibliographic Representative of “'The Journal of Commonwealth
Literature.”' She is on the International Advisory Board of 'The Journal
of Postcolonial Writing' and has guest edited its Special Issue Volume
47 Issue 2, 2011: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence

5. in Pakistan. She is on the Advisory Committee of the DSC Prize for
South Asian Literature and served as a 2013 jury member. From 2009-
2011 she served as regional chair (Eurasia) for the Commonwealth
Writers Prize.
She is editor of three pioneering anthologies of Pakistani English
literature, of which the US edition of 'And the World Changed
Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women" received the Gold IPPY
award and the Bronze Foreword Award in the United States Her memoir
essays have appeared in "50 Shades of Feminism" edited by Lisa
Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susid Orbach (Virago, 2013), 'Moving
Worlds, Postcolonial South Asian
She is daughter of Jahanara Habibullah (the author of a memoir),
Zindagi Ki Yadein: Riyasat Rampur Ka Nawabi Daur and niece of
Attia Hosain, noted English femini)st and writer. Her daughter is the
Pakistani novelist kamila Shamsie.
Life & Career:-
Muneeza Shamsie was born in Lahore, Pakistan and
educated in England at the Wispers School. She is the daughter of the
writer Jahanara Habibullah.
Shamsie is a regular contributor to the Dawn newspaper, as well as the
Herald and Newsline magazines on literary affairs. She is also on the
editorial board of the Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.
Shamsie's most significant works are her compilations of the works of
some Pakistani authors writing in English.
Contribution in Pakistani literature:-

6. Muneeza
Shamsie has also contributed to several other scholarly publications,
including Archiv fur der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen,
Commonwealth Essays and Studies and the online The Literary
Encyclopedia, and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century
Fiction.
Shamsie is a regular contributor to the Dawn newspaper, as well as the
Herald and Newsline magazines on literary affairs. She is also on the
editorial board of the Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies.
Shamsie has spoken about Pakistani English literature at many literary
forums, conferences, and seminars. Her short fiction has appeared in
various anthologies, The Toronto Review, and Nephra. She is a founding
member of Karachi hospital the Kidney Centre and Life member of
the Association of Children with Emotional and Learning Problems
(ACELP). She also taught music and mime at ACELP's school, as a
volunteer in the 1970s.
Shamsie's most acclaimed works are her compilation of the works of
Pakistani authors writing in English. The American edition of her third
anthology And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by
Pakistani Women was published with an expanded introduction and new
headwords by The Feminist Press at CUNY and won several awards,
including the 2009 IPPY (Independent Publisher of the Year) Gold
Award and the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of The Year Bronze
Award – both for the best anthology by an independent publisher.
1. A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in
English (1997)
2. Leaving Home: Towards A New Millennium: A Collection of
English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001)
3. And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani
Women (2005)

7. 4. And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani
Women (2008)
Muneeza Shamise is currently working on a history of Pakistani
English Literature and there are her favourite books:
Burnt Shadous by Kamila Shamsie;
The English patient by Michael Ondaatje;
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys;
The Ghost Road Trilogy by Pat Barker;
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie;
Tariq Rehman:-
Tariq Rahman is presently an associate professor
of linguistics at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad. He did his master’s and Ph. D from the
University of Sheffield in English Literature. Later, he also studied
Linguistics in Glasgow. Dr. Tariq Rahman is a renowned Pakistani
linguist and literary figure who has produced a number of research
papers and literary writings. He is a man of international repute. He is
also the first to write a linguistic description of Pakistani English as
well as the first history of Pakistani Literature.
His first collection of short stories were The Legacy and Other Short
Stories . Work and Other Short Stories is his second collection of stories
written between 1982 and 1988. Most of the stories in this collection
preserve the narrative style of the last century; but the concerns and

8. themes are contemporary. Stories are symbolic as well as contain
symbols in them.
As far as the purpose of the stories is concerned Tariq Rahman says,
‘my purpose is to communicate thought and experience or to create a
world of microcosm’.
For these reasons, one cannot cover up one’s tracks and if there is
obscurity in the stories, it is due to the same approach and purpose
adopted by Tariq Rahman. Although, the writer says, ‘I am not genius’.
He has tried to combine beauty and wisdom in these stories and has been
successful to some extent.
Life & career:-
Tariq Rahman is a great personality and
Pakistani academic, columnist and intellectual. Currently based in
Lahore, Pakistan. He is author of many books and other publications;
mainly in the field of linguistics He has been awarded several national
and international awards to recognize his research and scholarly work.
He was born in Barelly (U.P.) in India on 4 February 1949. The family
moved to Pakistan in 1951. His father, Sami Ullah Khan, served as the
head of the mathematics department at the Pakistan Military Academy
in kalkul near Abbotabadd.
He joined the academia as an associate professor in the English
Department of Peshawar university in 1985. In 1987, he became
professor and head of the English Department in the university of Azad
Jammu and Kashmir in Muzaffabad where he introduced linguistics.
In 1989, he also got an M.Litt in linguistics from the university of in
Glasgow. In 1990, he joined the National Institute of Pakistan Studies.
In 2004, he was given the title of National Distinguished Professor by
the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. In the same year he was
awarded the pride of performance for research.

9. Contribution in Pakistani Literature:-
To write from Hindi to Urdu: a
Social and Political History, he travelled to some of the major cities in
Pakistan and four countries: England, France, Germany and India. He
studied sources in Urdu, Persian, and Hindi. He also got works in
Chagatai Turkish, French and German translated for himself. He
learned the Devanagari script on his own and Persian at the Khana-e-
Farhang in Rawalpindi at the age of 58.
He has also published three collections of short stories and has edited
two books. His research-based published work is mostly on
sociolinguistic history, language and politics and educational linguistics
with focus on the Muslims of north India and Pakistan. He has also
written more than 94 articles in scholarly journals, 12 entries in
reference books, 10 encyclopedias articles, 35 chapters in books and
many book reviews. In addition to Oxford University Press, Karachi, his
books have been published by Orient Blackswan in India. On 14
August 2013 the Sitara-e-Imtiaz was given to him. Civil awards of this
kind are considered a great honor in Pakistan and are conferred by the
President on 23 March the following year.
He is also an important columnist and a literary critic. He has
commented extensively on Pakistani literature in English. He is a liberal
humanist who asserts the desirability of democracy, peace and tolerance
as well as the rights of women, minorities and the working classes and
peasantry in Pakistan. This makes him one of the few Pakistani
intellectuals who advocate such values in a traditional male-dominating
society moving increasingly towards intolerance and belligerence.
1. The legacy by Tariq Rehman
2. Language and politicians in Pakistan by Tariq Rehman
3. Pakistani universities by Tariq Rehman
4. A History of Pakistani English literature by Tariq Rehman

10. 5. Bingo short story by Tariq Rehman
6. From Hindi to Urdu, a social and political history by Tariq
Rehman
7. Language Education and Culture by Tariq Rehman
8. The History of Urdu-Unglish Controversy in Pakistan by Tariq
Rehman
9. A History of Pakistan Literature by Tariq Rehman
The Third Leg and Other short stories by Tariq Rehman
Conclusion:-
Muneeza shamsie and Tariq Rehman is the great
pioneers of Pakistani Literature, whose contribution in Pakistani
Literature can’t be ignored .Tariq Rehman is a liberal humanist who
asserts the desirability of democracy, peace and tolerance as well as the
rights of women, minorities and the working classes and peasantry in
Pakistan. Muneeza shamise is still working on the History of Pakistani
English literature.