Bilal Tanweer

Bilal Tanweer is a writer and translator. His novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Chautauqua Prize. His previous translations include works of Muhammad Khalid Akhtar, Ibn-e Safi, Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Bilal Hassan Minto, Sarmad Sehbai, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz. With Pauline Fan, he curated works from across South and Southeast Asia for Commonwealth’s addastories.org. His writings have appeared in GrantaThe New York TimesDawn, and The Caravan. He lives and teaches in Lahore.

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