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Hear Me Roar!
Slam & Performance Poetry
with H M Naqvi / chaired by Linda Jaivin
PAKISTAN
H. M. Naqvi’s debut novel, Home Boy, told the New York 9/11 story from a Pakistani perspective. It won the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. His follow up is The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack, both a rollicking ride through Karachi, its eccentric characters and cosmopolitan history, and the tale of septuagenarian Abdullah, a “larger than life but gloriously unaccomplished man”, whose decaying body belies his vital mind and ongoing quest for meaning.