Reads of the Year 2025 – Mahmood Awan for The News
Mahmood Awan shares his reads of the year 2025 for The News on Sunday
Saryaab: A poetic Arrival
Mahmood Awan (The News on Sunday, 7th December 2025) The University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, stands apart as an institution that has not only produced world-class engineers, architects, technologists, civil administrators and teachers, but also made an...
Reads of the Year 2024 – Mahmood Awan for The News
Mahmood Awan reviews his most cherished reads of the year 2024 for The News on Sunday Roundup, 24
Najm Hosain Syed’s Kaafian
Mahmood Awan reviews Najm Hosain Syed’s’ Kaafian retitled ‘Aao Raat Jagaa’o’; Translated into English by Naveed Alam and Dr Asma Qadri) in today’s The News on Sunday.
Literary soul of the Punjab: Baramah (2023)
Mahmood Awan reviews Punjabi magazine ‘BaraMah’ for The News on Sunday
Reads of the Year 2023 – Mahmood Awan for The News
Mahmood Awan (The News on Sunday, 31st December 2023) Anup Singh’s Irrfan: Dialogues with the wind was my top read of the year. Anup Singh is a Geneva-based film director who directed Irrfan Khan for his films Qissa: The tale of a lonely ghost (2013) & The Song...
Sejal: Mahmood Awan’s Songs of Exile
In his latest collection of poems Mahmood Awan captures the zeitgeist of present day Punjab
Reads of the Year 2022 – Mahmood Awan for The News
As we bid adieu to 2022, TNS turns to South Asian writers and authors to ask them about the titles they read this year that have stayed with them. Here, in alphabetical order, is what they say – TNS
Zubair’s Grieving for Pigeons
The first book-length translation of Zubair Ahmad’s Punjabi short stories
A Year in Reading: 2021
As we approach the end of 2021, we ask some of our favourite writers to share what they enjoyed reading all of last year. Here, in alphabetical order, is what they say – TNS