Awards: Winner of the 2010 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was the winner of The Story Prize in 2009. His collection for short stories was also a finalist for the 2009 National Book awards, as well as the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, the 2010 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the 2010 Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award, and the 2010 Ondaatje Prize. It was also selected as one of TIME's top ten books of the year as well as both The Economist's, Publisher's Weekly's, and The Guardian's top ten lists for 2009. Also, his short story "Nawabdin Electrician" was selected by Salman Rushdie to be in America's Best Short Stories of 2008Works: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Style: He uses very particular and precise diction matched with flowing and detailed description.
Quote: "Half-Pakistani and half-American, I have spent equal amounts of time in each country, and so, knowing both cultures well and belonging to both, I equally belong to neither, look at both with an outsider's eye. These stories are written from that place in between, written to help both me and my reader bridge the gap."
Questions: On who did yo base the conflict and character of Nawabdin?
What was the most exciting/thrilling/interesting thing that happened to you during your time in Pakistan?
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