Interview with author Daniyal Mueenuddin
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This interview with author Daniyal Mueenuddin was conducted by Claire Chambers on Tuesday, 31 August 2010, at his home in London.
The interview includes discussion of his short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders and of recent geo-political events in Pakistan and beyond.
About the Collection
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders was subject to intense speculation before its publication, partly because of the inclusion of his short story, ‘Nawabdin Electrician’, in Salman Rushdie’s Best American Stories of 2008. Mueenuddin went on to win the 2009 Story Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, among other honours. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is a richly dark collection of interlocking stories centring on characters from different social classes, most of whom live in the rural south Punjab of Pakistan.
About the Author
Now working as an author and mango farmer in the south Punjab he writes about, Daniyal Mueenuddin is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, and was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. For several years he worked as a lawyer in New York. His father, Ghulam Mueenuddin, was a leading member of Pakistan’s Civil Service and, later, an important politician. His recently-deceased mother, Barbara, was an American journalist, who encouraged Daniyal to pursue writing as a career. He is currently working on two novels, one of which fictionalizes the life of his mother in America.
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