Sorayya Khan

Cara Cilano (Michigan State University)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born c. 1970

Places

Born in Pakistan
Active in Pakistan

Activities

Primary

Prose writer

Resources

Born in Vienna, Austria, to a Pakistani father and a Dutch mother, Sorayya Khan spent her childhood in Pakistan—mostly Islamabad—before settling in the United States, where she now lives with her family and writes (Khan, 2010, 90). Islamabad was home during Khan’s childhood. She traveled to the United States for college, including her undergraduate degree at Allegheny College and an advanced degree in International Studies from the University of Denver (Khan, 2015).

Her cross-continental upbringing situates Khan among so many Pakistani Anglophone writers, including Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and H. M. Naqvi, whose work came to broad attention in the first decades of the 21^st …

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Citation: Cilano, Cara. "Sorayya Khan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 15 August 2022 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14847, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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