Uzma Aslam Khan

Uzma Aslam Khan

Uzma Aslam Khan is an award-winning author of five globally published novels. Her latest work, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, was recognized as one of the New York Times ‘Best Historical Fiction 2022’ and featured in their ‘Books for Summer 2022’ list. It also won the 9th UBL Literary Awards for English Language Fiction in 2020, the Karachi Literature Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize in 2021, and the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction in 2023.

Khan’s earlier novels include Trespassing, a 2003 Commonwealth Prize nominee; The Geometry of God, named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2009; and Thinner Than Skin, which was nominated for both the Man Asian Literary Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and won the inaugural French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival in 2014.

Her work has also been recognized or nominated for the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Prize, the Australian Book Review’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and Calyx magazine’s Margarita Donnelly Prize. Her writings have appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Australian Book Review, Nimrod, AGNI, Calyx, Guardian UK, Dawn, and many other journals.

Often set in landscapes that predate modern states, her work explores themes of refuge, focusing on migrant and Indigenous communities whose connections to land and water are threatened by racism, patriarchy, war, and colonialism.