Nasir Abbas Nayyar

A scholar, author, and short story writer, Nasir Abbas Nayyar is the former Director General of the Urdu Science Board, Lahore, and Professor of Urdu at the University of the Punjab, Lahore. He is also the editor of LUMS’ research journal Bunyaad. His book Mabad Nauabadiyat: Urdu kay Tanzur men (OUP, 2013) introduced postcolonial studies into Urdu literature. His book Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel-e-Jadid (OUP, 2016) won the Best Urdu Book Prize at KLF 2017 and the Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq Award (2016) for Urdu prose from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. His book Us Ko Ik Shakhs Samjhna to Munasib hi Nahi (OUP, 2017) was awarded the UBL Literary Prize (2019) for Best Urdu Non-Fiction. His book Nazm Kaisay Parhain is the first of its kind in Urdu. Aik Zamana Khatam Howa Hae is his fourth collection of short stories. In Jadeediat aur Nauabadiyat (OUP, 2021), Dr. Nayyar explores the complex relationship between modernity and colonialism. Naiy Naqqad kay Naam Khatoot is his most recent publication. He regularly writes on literary issues in The News and Dawn.