Biography of Rukhsana Ahmad

Biography of Rukhsana Ahmad

Rukhsana Ahmad (brought into the world 1948) is Pakistani essayist of novels,short stories, verse, plays, interpreter and who after marriage relocated to England for further examinations and seek after a profession in composing. She has crusaded for Asian scholars, especially ladies. 

Rukhsana Ahmad was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1948. She did her tutoring in numerous schools in various urban areas in Pakistan. She did her school training in Punjab University, and in Karachi acquired Master of Arts degree from the Karachi University in English Literature and Linguistics.[1][2] She at that point joined the University of Karachi and showed English Literature, till she got married.[3] Subsequent to her marriage she relocated to England, where she got degrees from the Reading University and the University of the Arts. 

Ahmad has won numerous honors as designations for surely understood honors like the Commission of Racial Equality Award, the Writers' Guild Award, the Sony Award, and the 2002 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.[1] For her play River on Fire (2001) she won the second place for the Susan Smith Blackburn theater grant. For her play Wide Sargasso Sea she got the Writers' Guild of Great Britain radio adjustment grant. 

Positioned in London with her family, Ahmad started an independent profession as a writer and columnist. She started making an interpretation of works from Urdu into English, for example, a volume of ladies' challenge verse under the title We Sinful Women (1991), and Altaf Fatima's tale The One Who Did Not Ask (1993).[1] Her first novel was The Hope Chest (1996) which features the life of a young lady raised in two "diverse worlds".[2] During 1991, as inhabitant author in Cleveland, Ahmad was manager of Dreams into Words and Daughters of the East. 

Rukhsana Ahmad has accomplished refinement over a few sorts. Melody for a Sanctuary, her first play, prompted various commissions for the stage and radio. Waterway on Fire (2001) was sprinter up for the Susan Smith Blackburn theater grant and Wide Sargasso Sea for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain radio adjustment grant. Her first novel The Hope Chest (Virago, 1996) catches the clashing parallel existences of young ladies from the two universes she knows best. A considerable lot of her short stories, distributed globally, are incorporated into The Gate-attendant's Wife (ILQA, 2014). 

With Rita Wolf, Rukhsana helped to establish Kali Theater Company, which she drove for a long time. For 10 years, she filled in as the (establishing) seat of a South Asian writing and expressions file, Salidaa (now Sadaa). Rukhsana has held composition residencies crosswise over London and the districts, including bilingual ones, yet has observed her RLF partnerships to be the most supporting and moving. Her acclaimed interpretation of Urdu women's activist verse We Sinful Women (The Women's Press, 1991), a plainly political work, sprang similarly from women's activist concerns and her affection for Urdu writing. It investigates subjects of conviction and unbelief that still fixate her, pervading the work in advancement: a second novel Shrine in the Desert and an element film The Tainted Gene.