Shahnaz Bashir Explained

Shahnaz Bashir is a Kashmiri novelist and academic from Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.[1]

Education and work

Shahnaz Bashir is a doctoral fellow and teaching associate in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).[2] He teaches "Writing As Communication" and "Public Speaking", and has been awarded a commendation for "excellent pedagogy" by the Directorate of Graduate Programs at the Department of Communication at UMass. Earlier in 2021 and 2022, he was consecutively twice a finalist for Distinguished Teaching Award in the Grad Teaching Associate category at the university. He was also awarded the Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellowship by UMass.[3]

Before coming to UMass, he taught narrative journalism and conflict reportage at the Central University of Kashmir.[4]

Kashmir Life, in its Jan 2016 year-ender special issue, declared Shahnaz as "one of the eleven impact-makers from the entire population of Jammu & Kashmir".[5]

He is the South Asia juror for the True Story Award, the first-ever global journalism prize instituted in Bern Switzerland.[6]

Critical acclaim

His debut novel The Half Mother (Hachette, 2014) won the Muse India Young Writer Award 2015.[7] The Marathi translation of The Half Mother was published in 2017,[8] the Telugu version came out in December 2022.[9] The French version of the novel (La Mère Orpheline) was published by Editions du Rocher in Paris.[10] The Half Mother is the first-ever novel from Kashmir to be translated into a foreign (European) language. Shahnaz Bashir's second book Scattered Souls (HarperCollins, 2016) was longlisted for "Tata Lit Live Award 2017" for Best Book - Fiction. It was conferred with The Citizen's "Talent of the Year Award 2017".[11] In April 2018, Kashmir Observer reported "Scattered Souls is the best-selling fiction book in Kashmir till date... Its sales [in the bookstores of Srinagar] have surpassed the other fiction titles by Kashmiri writers writing in English".[12] His works of fiction have been compared with Saadat Hasan Manto and Anton Chekov.[13] The Asian Age observed: "There are easy comparisons with Manto in the often-shocking glibness with which Bashir lays bare a character's innermost feelings, or with Chekov in the rootedness of the characters to their circumstances."[13]

In 2017, Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council awarded him a writer's research residency at Winterthur, Switzerland.[14]

Books

Book chapters

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: I prefer writing to affect my relationship with life at large: Shahnaz Bashir. en. The Punch Magazine. Ubeer. Naqushbandi. 2017-01-20. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20200805184956/https://thepunchmagazine.com/the-byword/interviews/i-prefer-writing-to-affect-my-relationship-with-life-at-large-shahnaz-bashir. 5 August 2020. live.
  2. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211024012438/https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shahnaz-bashir. 2021-10-24.
  3. Web site: Department of Communication - Shahnaz Bashir. University of Massachusetts. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211024012438/https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/2101. 24 October 2021. live.
  4. Web site: Faculty: Shahnaz Bashir. Central University of Kashmir. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20180930115641/https://www.cukashmir.ac.in/faculty_profile.aspx?sid=39&did=24&pag=558&id=71. 2018-09-30.
  5. Web site: Award Winning Author Shahnaz Bashir's 'Scattered Souls' Launched. en. Kashmir Life. Muhammad. Raafi. 2016-10-27. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20190411053108/https://kashmirlife.net/award-winning-author-shahnaz-bashirs-scattered-souls-launched-122155/. 11 April 2019. live.
  6. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir - Jury. en. True Story Award. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20230224061419/https://truestoryaward.org/jury/member/shahnaz-bashir. 24 February 2023. live.
  7. Web site: Author Overview: Shanaz Bashir. en. HarperCollins Publishers India. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20230602150414/https://harpercollins.co.in/author-details/shahnaz-bashir/. 2 June 2023. live.
  8. Web site: The Half Mother by Shahnaz Bashir (Translated by Geetanjali Vaishampayan). Payal Books. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://payalbooks.com/products/the-half-mother-by-shahnaz-bashir-translated-by-geetanjali-vaishampayan. 2021-12-01.
  9. Web site: Kanniti Kashmir lo Oka Amma by Shahnaz Bashir. Logili Telugu Books. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://logilitelugubooks.com/book/kanniti-kashmir-lo-oka-amma-shahnaj-bashir. 2021-12-01.
  10. Web site: La Mère Orpheline. Éditions du Rocher. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://www.editionsdurocher.fr/product/121414/la-mere-orpheline. 2021-12-01.
  11. Web site: Novelist Shahnaz Bashir wins Talent of the Year Award. en. Kashmir Observer. 2017-03-09. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20230530122019/https://kashmirobserver.net/2017/03/09/novelist-shahnaz-bashir-wins-%C2%93talent-of-the-year%C2%94-award/. 30 May 2023. live.
  12. Web site: Scattered Souls is the best-selling fiction book in Kashmir till date. 23 April 2018.
  13. Web site: Book review: A snapshot of Kashmir with a time and date stamp. The Asian Age. Karishma. Attari. 22 January 2017 . 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20200215133659/https://www.asianage.com/books/220117/a-snapshot-of-kashmir-with-a-time-and-date-stamp.html. 15 February 2020. live.
  14. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir - Research Residency 2018. en. Pro Helvetia. 2018. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20230327041615/https://prohelvetia.in/en/artist/shahnaz-bashir-research-residency-2018/. 27 March 2023. live.
  15. Web site: The Half Mother: A Novel by Shahnaz Bashir. Hachette India. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://www.hachetteindia.com/Home/bookdetails/Info/9789350097885/the-half-mother--a-novel. 2021-12-01.
  16. Web site: Scattered Souls by Shahnaz Bashir. HarperCollins India. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://harpercollins.co.in/product/scattered-souls/. 2021-12-01.
  17. Web site: Nachbilder. Spector Books. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://spectorbooks.com/book/nachbilder. 2021-12-01.
  18. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir. The Punch Magazine. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://thepunchmagazine.com/author/shahnaz-bashir. 2021-12-01.
  19. Web site: Emerging Scholar Awards 2024. The Image Conference. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://ontheimage.com/2024-conference/emerging-scholar-awards. 2021-12-01.
  20. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir - Directory. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shahnaz-bashir. 2021-12-01.
  21. Web site: Shahnaz Bashir - Directory. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication. 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://www.umass.edu/communication/about/directory/shahnaz-bashir. 2021-12-01.
  22. Web site: Ich wünschte, ich wäre unter normalen Umständen aufgewachsen. Landbote. 14 February 2018 . 2023-12-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20211201000000/https://www.landbote.ch/ich-wuenschte-ich-waere-unter-normalen-umstaenden-aufgewachsen-677185415090. 2021-12-01.

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