Rukhsana Ahmad was born on 1948 and is a Pakistani writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and a translator, who after marriage migrated to England for further studies and pursue a career in writing.
10 Facts About Rukhsana Ahmad
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Rukhsana Ahmad did her schooling in many schools in different cities in Pakistan.
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Rukhsana Ahmad did her college education in Punjab University and in Karachi obtained Master of Arts degree from the Karachi University in English Literature and Linguistics.
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Rukhsana Ahmad then joined the University of Karachi and taught English Literature, until she married.
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Rukhsana Ahmad began translating works from Urdu into English, such as a volume of women's protest poetry under the title We Sinful Women, which included the work of Kishwar Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, and Sara Shagufta among others; and Altaf Fatima's novel The One Who Did Not Ask.
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Rukhsana Ahmad has adapted plays for BBC Radio, including Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam.
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Rukhsana Ahmad became a member of the Asian Women Writers Collective in London in 1984.
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Rukhsana Ahmad has founded the South Asian Arts and Literature in the Diaspora Archive in the United Kingdom known as Salidaa.
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Rukhsana Ahmad is an advisory fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary's College, University of London.
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Rukhsana Ahmad has won many accolades in the form of nominations for well-known awards such as the Commission for Racial Equality Award, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, the Sony Award, and the 2002 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.