Mudassar Bashir

A journalist, researcher, historian, and fiction writer, he has eleven books and innumerable articles to his credit and his writings have been translated into, English, Urdu and Gurumukhi and published in reputed magazines, both in Pakistan and abroad. He has also worked for the electronic media and is currently doing a radio programme on the history of Lahore. A number of awards such as World Punjabi Forum Award, PILAC literary Award, and Masood Khadar Posh Award, have been conferred on him. Bashir’s experimental Punjabi novel, ‘Kaun’, has just been awarded the finalist (runner-up) prize for the prestigious Dhanan Prize—an International Punjabi Literature Prize—at Vancouver, Canada.