Haider Shahbaz
Haider Shahbaz is a writer and translator. He studied history at Yale University, and he is currently doing a PhD in comparative literature at UCLA. He is the translator of Mirza Athar Baig’s Hassan’s State of Affairs (HarperCollins).
Fiction (translation)
Mengal
For two years, I have been living in the suburbs of a European capital and working blue-collar and service jobs. Every day, early in the morning, I leave my HLM and walk towards the Gare RER. The train is at a distance from the HLM; I have to walk a bit to get there. The sky is always beset with gray clouds, and under the sullen sky, a long and dejected street runs straight like a line through rows of public housing.
Poetry (translation)
Partition
My village
And in my village, the moon
Poetry (translation)
Untitled
Last night
The smell…