Adrian A. Husain

Adrian A. Husain was educated in England and Switzerland. He read for his BA (Hons.) in English Literature at New College, Oxford. He received a PhD for a thesis on Shakespeare and Machiavelli from the University of East Anglia and authored the critically acclaimed Politics and Genre in Hamlet (OUP, 2004). He is a winner of the prestigious Guinness Poetry Prize. A selection of his poems was published under the title Desert Album as part of Pakistan’s Jubilee Series in English (OUP, 1997). His first collection of sonnets, Italian Window, was published in 2017. His second book of sonnets, Knife of the Tide, was published in September 2025. His novel The Dreamwork of Lisa D was published very recently and will be launched at KLF 2026.