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- Title: Writing from Extreme Edges: Pakistani English-Language Fiction (Company Overview)
- Author : Ariel
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 92 KB
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In 2000, Shafiq Naz founded Alhamra, a small press in Islamabad, Pakistan. Driven by Naz's desire to contribute to the modest publishing industry in Pakistan, on the decline since the 1960s and 1970s, and by his love for languages and literatures, Alhamra publishes primarily fiction in English and also reprints books in English and Urdu. In addition to publishing critical work edited by Alamgir Hashmi and the short fiction of Tariq Rahman, two well-established names in Pakistani letters, the press's most distinguishing feature is its commitment to publishing emerging writers from Pakistan. Naz sees value in publishing new writers, such as Bina Shah, Sehba Sarwar, and Sorayya Khan, all of whom have been educated and/or reside outside of Pakistan. These new literary voices, Naz contends, are attracting a younger generation of Pakistani readers who have an interest in contemporary literature written in English. In 2006, Alhamra established the Alhamra Literary Review, which, according to the press's website, means "to showcase new and emerging literary talent in and of Pakistan, as well as to introduce its audience to established figures in Pakistani literature through translations and excerpts from great works." The press has plans to publish the Review annually. Alhamra's Pakistani audience for its English-language production is, as far as the press can determine, made up of educated people with an age range of 20-40. The age of Alhamra's readership means that, in terms of Pakistani history, these readers were born after Partition and, most, after the 1971 civil war that resulted in Bangladeshi independence. The audience's age is significant for obvious reasons: here are two generations of readers who articulate Pakistani identities that draw upon the country's past after independence and upon its multi-ethnic present (Naz). (1)