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Literature Live: Moniza Alvi and Nadeem Aslam on Monday 7 October

07 Oct 2013

The University's Centre for New Writing and the Manchester Literature Festival present two extraordinary writers, who have both drawn on their Pakistani heritage to pen exquisite works of art.

Manchester Literature Festival and the Centre for New Writing Moniza Alvi is the author of six acclaimed collections of poetry including The Country at My Shoulder, Carrying My Wife and At the Time of Partition, inspired by her own family history, is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. Europa, is a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize. 

Nadeem Aslam’s latest novel, The Blind Man’s Garden is set in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months following 9/11 – an unflinching and lyrically told story of war and family loss. He is also the author of the multi-award winning Season the Rainbirds, Maps for Lost Lovers and The Wasted Vigil.

This event is part of the Manchester Literature Festival and will be held at The Martin Harris Centre from 6.30pm.

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