Aamer Hussein
Aamer Hussein is a Pakistani short story writer and critic. Hussein was born in Karachi, in 1955, and moved to London in 1970. He is the author of six collections of short stories, including Mirror to the Sun (1993), This Other Salt (1999), Turquoise (2002), Cactus Town (2003), and Insomnia (2007). Hussein is the editor of Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women, and the novella Another Gulmohar Tree (2009). His most recent work is the collection Love & its Seasons (2017).
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Han Suyin: A Friendship
Aamer Hussein
'Han Suyin, elegant postcolonial diva avant la lettre, icon of the new, nonaligned Asia, thorn in the side of the dying British Empire and the American Right.'
In Conversation | The Online Edition
The National Language
Uzma Aslam Khan & Aamer Hussein
‘It gives me two languages to play with in my writing. It also gives me two languages to love and curse in.’