![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. ![]() Given that Aslam is one of the most linguistically adept and poetic of contemporary English-language writers, it is surprising to learn that he only studied for a science education because his English initially wasn’t strong enough to allow him to pursue his love of literature. He dropped out of a biochemistry degree at the University of Manchester in his third year, because he felt that if he had the safety net of qualifying as a marine biologist he would be ‘dragged into worldly affairs’ and never become a writer. Given his relatively late arrival in the UK, he is neither a diasporic ‘British Pakistani writer’, nor a Pakistani writer, but is situated in an in-between position, complicating conceptual boundaries between East and West. He continues to live in West Yorkshire, but now in a lakeside setting in the countryside. Nadeem Aslam is a novelist who was born in 1966 in the Punjabi city of Gujranwala, Pakistan, and went to a mediocre Urdu medium school, before moving to Huddersfield when he was 14, knowing no English. ![]()
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