Daniyal Mueenuddin
Daniyal Mueenuddin was brought up in Lahore, Pakistan and Elroy, Wisconsin. A
graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, his stories have
appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Zoetrope, The Best American Short Stories 2008, selected by Salman Rushdie, and the forthcoming PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories 2010. For a number of years he practiced law in New York. He now lives on a farm in Pakistan’s southern Punjab.
Awards
Books by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction and the 2009 Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. “The rural rootedness and gentle humour of R.K. Narayan with the literary sophistication and stylishness of Jhumpa Lahiri.”—Financial TimesMore