Uzma Aslam Khan

Uzma Aslam Khan is the prize-winning author of five novels published worldwide. These include Trespassing, translated in 18 languages and recipient of a Commonwealth Prize nomination; The Geometry of God, a Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2009; Thinner Than Skin, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. Her work has twice won a Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize, and appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, AGNI, Calyx, the Guardian, Counterpunch, Drawbridge, Herald and Dawn, among other periodicals.

Khan’s new novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, is set in the British penal settlement of the Andaman Islands during the 1930s, through the Japanese occupation during World War II. The book, 27 years in the making, writes into being the stories of those caught in the vortex of history, yet written out of it. It won the Karachi Literature Festival-Getz Pharma Fiction Prize 2021 and the UBL Literary Awards English Language Fiction category 2020. The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali was released in the US and UK in May and June 2022, respectively, and listed as one of the New York Times' Books for Summer 2022.

Read the NYT review: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/bo...

Read Khan's conversation with poet Aracelis Girmay in the Los Angeles Review of Books: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/t...