Amna Chaudhry

Amna Chaudhry is a writer and activist. Her novel-in-progress, Parlour Girls, has received support from literary mentorship programs such as South Asia Speaks and Asian Women Writers. In 2023, her short story Khazina was shortlisted for the ZHR Prize, Pakistan’s premier prize for women writers. As a freelance journalist, her work includes reporting on Pakistan’s feminist and environmental movements for Guernica, Himal Southasian, Caravan, Dawn, and The News on Sunday. Her translations of the work of feminist poet Fahmida Riaz have been published in Exchanges: A Journal of Literary Translation.

Fiction (translation)
Aunty

She cackled and gave me a hug, clearly pleased by my comment. Ducking into the nearest fast food place, we ordered coffee and spent an hour catching up. I hadn’t seen Raufa in years and we were now well into our thirties.

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