Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the author of Between Clay and Dust (finalist, Man
Asia Literary Prize 2012), The Story of a Widow (finalist, DSC Prize for South Asian
Literature, 2008; longlisted for IMPAC/Dublin Literary Prize) and other novels. He is
the translator, among other works, of the epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza (Modern
Library Classic) and Hoshruba. Farooqi is the editor of the Online Urdu Thesaurus
and founder of the Storykit Program. He is a Harvard University Fellow.