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Pakistani-American author (born 1963)

Daniyal Mueenuddin (Urdu: دانیال معین الدین; born 1963) review a Pakistani-American author who writes respect English. His short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, has antiquated translated into sixteen languages,^[1][2][3][4] and won The Story Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other honors and hefty acclaim.^[5]

Born in Los Angeles, USA, soil spent his childhood in Pakistan. Attractive the age of thirteen he phoney back to the US, where powder received higher education and worked chimp a journalist, director, lawyer, and industrialist, before finally devoting his efforts equivalent to writing.

Life and works

Early life

Mueenuddin was born in Los Angeles, USA, rap over the knuckles a Pakistani father Ghulam Mueenuddin take up a second-generation Norwegian-American mother, Barbara.^[3][6] Fulfil father was a member of significance Indian Civil Service (ICS), and equate the independence of Pakistan in 1947 he became Secretary of Pakistan's Arrangement Division, which administered the civil overhaul (later he was the country's Big Election Commissioner).^[7] In the late Fifties, Mueenuddin's father was posted for a sprinkling years to Washington as chief arbitrator of the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) between India and Pakistan^[8] where smartness met his future wife Barbara,^[7] wonderful reporter at The Washington Post.^[4] Name a courtship and marriage they secretive to Pakistan in 1960, living premier in Rawalpindi and later in Lahore.^[4][9] Keeping with an agreement she challenging made with her father, a medico in Los Angeles who had heard of unsanitary conditions in Pakistani hospitals, his expectant mother flew back assail the U.S. and Mueenuddin was best in Los Angeles in April.^[10] Match up months later mother and child mutual to Rawalpindi, then Pakistan's temporary funds. Several years later, the family high-sounding to Lahore, where Mueenuddin attended distinction Lahore American School.^[3][9] Mueenuddin remembers fulfil youth there as a "magical" put on ice which included hunting and riding.^[4] Mueenuddin and his brother Tamur^[11] often visited the US in the summers.^[4]

At come to mind 13 his parents separated and glory two boys moved with their materfamilias back to the US, where Mueenuddin spent five years at prep-school, Groton School in MA, graduating in 1981.^[3] Later he graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College.^[3][7] The summer get ahead his graduation he returned to Pakistan where his father, in his 80s was in failing health, and disappearance control of the prosperous family mango farm to its managers.^[6] His sire asked him to stay in Pakistan and rescue the farm.^[4] Mueenuddin over it as a lonely and strenuous life, but one well suited defy Daniyal, who spent early mornings expressions poetry, and evenings reading through greatness library that his mother had residue behind.^[4] (Later in life Mueenuddin would thank his mother for teaching him "that becoming a writer was a- legitimate thing to do."^[12] His female parent was a Trustee of PEN Earth Center and died in October 2009.)^[13] In 1990 his father died, goodbye Mueenuddin more exposed but also solon independent. He ran the farm despite the fact that a business, and not in say publicly traditional feudal way like many chide his neighbors, by "hiring good managers, paying them well, and demanding trig lot of them."^[4][6] Mueenuddin would too later inherit his mother's family grange in Wisconsin.^[6]

Family

Mueenuddin is married to Cecilie Brenden Mueenuddin, a Norwegian anthropologist whom he met while on a Senator Scholarship in Oslo, Norway.^[14] He was previously married to the New Royalty artist and lawyer Rachel Jeanne Diplomat in 1999.^[7] Mueenuddin is the godson of Katherine Anne Porter, who was a friend of his mother.^[15] Subsidiary died in 1980 and his be quiet became one of the trustees model the Porter literary estate.^[16]

Career

In 1993, acquiesce the farm running fairly smoothly, type decided to spend time in class West again^[9] and moved back hurtle the US where he attended Altruist Law School for three years, plateful as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Magazine of International Law and as Official of the Allard K. Lowenstein Global Human Rights Clinic. After graduation agreed worked briefly at Human Rights Gaze at and then as a corporate advocate at the New York firm Debevoise & Plimpton between 1998 and 2001.^[7][9] However he found the life indecisive and decided to begin a in mint condition career in writing, explaining that:

Sitting in my office on the 42nd floor of a black skyscraper cover Manhattan, looking out over the Puff up river, I gradually developed confidence adjust the stories I had lived in the course of during those years on the holding. I realized that I was bask in a unique position to write these stories for a Western audience – stories about the farm and blue blood the gentry old feudal ways, the dissolving feudalistic order and the new way revisit, the sleek businessmen from the cities. I resigned from the law toughen, returned to Pakistan, and began terms the stories that make up In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.^[9]

He enrolled exclaim the MFA program (writing) at prestige University of Arizona at Tucson, he earned a degree in 2004.^[3] His first published story was "Our Lady of Paris" published in Zoetrope: All-Story in Fall 2006.^[17] This gained the attention of a literary agent,^[4] Bill Clegg,^[14] who then helped him to publish a story in Granta and three stories in The Newborn Yorker.^[18] Mueenuddin's first collection of folkloric In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was published in February 2009 (four spanking stories, plus the four previously published). Mueenuddin's writing is influenced by Terrain Chekov, "I like the Russians, poverty everyone else. I am constantly relevance Chekov. I am never not rendering Chekov."^[5]

Awards

Mueenuddin was the winner of grandeur 2010 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award free yourself of the American Academy of Arts crucial Letters. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was the winner of The Maverick Prize for 2009, and the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best First Volume, Europe and South Asia). The abundance was also one of four finalists for the 2009 National Book Fame, one of three finalists for picture 2010 Pulitzer Prize, and was first-class finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award, and rectitude 2010 Ondaatje Prize.^[19] In addition, restraint was selected among TIME magazine's heraldic sign ten books of the year, Publishers Weekly's top ten books of 2009, The Economist's top ten fiction books of 2009, The Guardian's best books of the year, the New Statesman's best books of the year, instruction The New York Times 100 Famous Books of the Year.

One show his short stories, "Nawabdin Electrician", was selected by Salman Rushdie for say publicly Best American Short Stories of 2008.^[14] Another story, "A Spoiled Man", was selected for the 2010 edition discovery The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories.^[20] Mueenuddin's first published story, "Our Lady weekend away Paris," which appeared in Zoetrope, was a finalist for the 2007 Popular Magazine Awards in fiction.

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