Lectures on Film 04/17/18
© Wissenschaftskolleg
2017/2018
Mohammed Hanif
Writer, journalist, librettist
BBC Karachi
Born in 1965 in Pakistan
Studied Avionics and Navigation at Pakistan Air Force College Sargodha and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich
Project
Red Birds of Our Soul (novel)
Like most novelists, its very difficult for me, if not impossible, to talk about a novel while I am writing it. Writing fiction for me is the process of discovering a world, not describing a world that I already know. Right now, my proposed project exists in fragments, in scribbled notes, character sketches, and long lists of things that need to be researched. I think a novel is described after it has been written, not when its an idea in a writers head.I intend to work on an ambitious project, a novel that takes place simultaneously in about ten different locales; at this stage its a literary political thriller. I do hope to share excerpts from it with other Fellows during my Fellowship period. Ill also continue to write my nonfiction pieces and hope to share those with the other Fellows as well.
Recommended Reading
Hanif, Mohammed. The Baloch Who is Not Missing & Others Who Are (nonfiction pamphlet). Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 2013.
-. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (novel). London: Jonathan Cape, 2011.
-. A Case of Exploding Mangoes (novel). London: Jonathan Cape, 2008.
Publications from the Fellows' Library
Hanif, Mohammed (
München,
2012)
Alice Bhattis Himmelfahrt : Roman
Our lady of Alice Bhatti <dt.>
Hanif, Mohammed (
München,
2009)
Eine Kiste explodierender Mangos : Roman
A case of exploding mangoes <dt.>