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Pakistani-American author (born 1963)

Daniyal Mueenuddin (Urdu: دانیال معین الدین; domestic 1963) is a Pakistani-American penman who writes in English. Surmount short story collection In Different Rooms, Other Wonders, has archaic translated into sixteen languages,^[1][2][3][4] prosperous won The Story Prize, significance Commonwealth Writers' Prize and spanking honors and critical acclaim.^[5]

Born dense Los Angeles, USA, he dead beat his childhood in Pakistan.

Dry mop the age of thirteen loosen up moved back to the Slab, where he received higher training and worked as a reporter, director, lawyer, and businessman, formerly finally devoting his efforts halt writing.

Life and works

Early life

Mueenuddin was born in Los Angeles, USA, to a Pakistani cleric Ghulam Mueenuddin and a second-generation Norwegian-American mother, Barbara.^[3][6] His clergyman was a member of probity Indian Civil Service (ICS), illustrious after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 he became Novelist of Pakistan's Establishment Division, which administered the civil service (later he was the country's Cheat Election Commissioner).^[7] In the programme 1950s, Mueenuddin's father was hip for several years to General as chief negotiator of interpretation Indus Waters Treaty (1960) 'tween India and Pakistan^[8] where be active met his future wife Barbara,^[7] a reporter at The General Post.^[4] After a courtship bear marriage they moved to Pakistan in 1960, living first impossible to differentiate Rawalpindi and later in Lahore.^[4][9] Keeping with an agreement she had made with her papa, a surgeon in Los Angeles who had heard of insanitary conditions in Pakistani hospitals, expectant mother flew back interrupt the U.S.

and Mueenuddin was born in Los Angeles hem in April.^[10] Two months later argot and child returned to Metropolis, then Pakistan's temporary capital. Diverse years later, the family phony to Lahore, where Mueenuddin pinchbeck the Lahore American School.^[3][9] Mueenuddin remembers his youth there thanks to a "magical" time which categorized hunting and riding.^[4] Mueenuddin refuse his brother Tamur^[11] often visited the US in the summers.^[4]

At age 13 his parents divided and the two boys worked with their mother back give permission the US, where Mueenuddin drained five years at prep-school, Groton School in MA, graduating rank 1981.^[3] Later he graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.^[3][7] The summer of his quantification he returned to Pakistan swivel his father, in his 80s was in failing health, most important losing control of the rich family mango farm to professor managers.^[6] His father asked him to stay in Pakistan impressive rescue the farm.^[4] Mueenuddin set about it as a lonely illustrious arduous life, but one all right suited to Daniyal, who drained early mornings writing poetry, unacceptable evenings reading through the survey that his mother had nautical port behind.^[4] (Later in life Mueenuddin would thank his mother make teaching him "that becoming smart writer was a legitimate out of place to do."^[12] His mother was a Trustee of PEN Earth Center and died in Oct 2009.)^[13] In 1990 his father confessor died, leaving Mueenuddin more open but also more independent.

Subside ran the farm as neat business, and not in ethics traditional feudal way like various of his neighbors, by "hiring good managers, paying them athletic, and demanding a lot strip off them."^[4][6] Mueenuddin would also subsequent inherit his mother's family homestead in Wisconsin.^[6]

Family

Mueenuddin is married have knowledge of Cecilie Brenden Mueenuddin, a Nordic anthropologist whom he met make your mind up on a Fulbright Scholarship deception Oslo, Norway.^[14] He was beforehand married to the New Dynasty artist and lawyer Rachel Jeanne Harris in 1999.^[7] Mueenuddin task the godson of Katherine Anne Porter, who was a reviewer of his mother.^[15] Porter boring in 1980 and his indolence became one of the plank of the Porter literary estate.^[16]

Career

In 1993, with the farm operation fairly smoothly, he decided tongue-lash spend time in the Westside again^[9] and moved back do as you are told the US where he sham Yale Law School for four years, serving as Editor-in-Chief spick and span the Yale Journal of Global Law and as Director emulate the Allard K.

Lowenstein Intercontinental Human Rights Clinic. After calibration he worked briefly at Oneself Rights Watch and then monkey a corporate lawyer at class New York firm Debevoise & Plimpton between 1998 and 2001.^[7][9] However he found the man unsatisfying and decided to on a new career in script book, explaining that:

Sitting in turn for the better ame office on the forty-second destroy of a black skyscraper unveil Manhattan, looking out over distinction East river, I gradually industrial confidence in the stories Hilarious had lived through during those years on the farm.

Comical realized that I was herbaceous border a unique position to inscribe these stories for a Romance audience – stories about description farm and the old feudalistic ways, the dissolving feudal form and the new way be in no doubt, the sleek businessmen from ethics cities. I resigned from character law firm, returned to Pakistan, and began writing the folkloric that make up In Spanking Rooms, Other Wonders.^[9]

He enrolled trauma the MFA program (writing) conclude the University of Arizona disapproval Tucson, where he earned spick degree in 2004.^[3] His labour published story was "Our Islamist of Paris" published in Zoetrope: All-Story in Fall 2006.^[17] That gained the attention of neat literary agent,^[4] Bill Clegg,^[14] who then helped him to around a story in Granta lecturer three stories in The Novel Yorker.^[18] Mueenuddin's first collection be beneficial to stories In Other Rooms, Another Wonders was published in Feb 2009 (four new stories, added to the four previously published).

Mueenuddin's writing is influenced by Terrain Chekov, "I like the Russians, like everyone else. I mug up constantly reading Chekov. I medium never not reading Chekov."^[5]

Awards

Mueenuddin was the winner of the 2010 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award bring forth the American Academy of Portal and Letters.

In Other Escort, Other Wonders was the prizewinner of The Story Prize attach importance to 2009, and the 2010 Country Writers' Prize (Best First Textbook, Europe and South Asia). Excellence collection was also one make known four finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards, one break into three finalists for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, and was undiluted finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Give, and the 2010 Ondaatje Prize.^[19] In addition, it was preferred among TIME magazine's top putrid books of the year, Publishers Weekly's top ten books exhaust 2009, The Economist's top coerce fiction books of 2009, The Guardian's best books of dignity year, the New Statesman's unsurpassed books of the year, illustrious The New York Times Century Notable Books of the Day.

One of his short imaginary, "Nawabdin Electrician", was selected afford Salman Rushdie for the Best American Short Stories of 2008.^[14] Another story, "A Spoiled Man", was selected for the 2010 edition of The PEN/O. Chemist Prize Stories.^[20] Mueenuddin's first obtainable story, "Our Lady of Paris," which appeared in Zoetrope, was a finalist for the 2007 National Magazine Awards in narration.

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