| Usman T. Malik | |
| Native Name: | عثمان تنویر ملک |
| Native Name Lang: | Urdu |
| Birth Place: | Pakistan |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Language: | English |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Years Active: | 2003-present |
Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani speculative fiction author. His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, Black Static, and in a number of "year's best" anthologies. He is the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction (2014) and has won the British Fantasy Award (2016). He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award (2016), nominated again for the Stoker Award (2018), has twice been a finalist for the Nebula Award, and has been nominated for multiple Locus Awards.
Malik was born in Pakistan. His story, "The Crimson Storm", was published in Thirteen Stories #10 in 2003. The following year, "The Well That Never Ended" was published in Deep Magic #23. He had two stories published in The Crimson Pact series edited by Paul Genesse: "A Demon in the Mughal Court" in volume four (2012) and "Hearts in Reverse" in volume five (2013). "Pinned and Wriggling on the Wall" was published on the Daily Science Fiction site in June 2013.
That same year, he attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. In 2014, Malik became the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction with his story "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family." That story was also nominated for the Nebula and Locus Awards. In conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge, he led Pakistan's first speculative fiction writing workshop in Lahore in 2014, which featured Musharraf Ali Farooqi as a guest speaker.
His story, "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn", won the British Fantasy Award for best novella in 2016. The story was also nominated for the Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. The next year, "In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro" was nominated for a Locus Award. "The Fortune of Sparrows", published in February 2017 in Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales edited by Ellen Datlow, was nominated for a Locus Award. Malik was nominated for a Stoker Award for "Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung", published in Nightmare Magazine in 2018.
His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Black Static, and Tor.com. His stories have also been reprinted in a number of "year's best" anthologies including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Years Best YA Speculative Fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and the Year’s Best Weird Fiction. His first collection, Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, was published in 2021 by Kitab.
Malik's interests include Sufi poetry and playing the guitar. He currently works in the healthcare industry.
| Year | Organization | Award title, Category | Work | Result | Refs< | -- Use the template below for each row |
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| 2014 | Horror Writers Association | Bram Stoker Award, Short Fiction | "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" | |||
| 2015 | Locus | Locus Award, Best Short Story | "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" | |||
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America | Nebula Award, Best Short Story | "The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family" | ||||
| 2016 | British Fantasy Society | British Fantasy Award, Best Novella | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | |||
| Locus | Locus Award, Best Novella | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | ||||
| Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America | Nebula Award, Best Novella | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | ||||
| World Fantasy Convention | World Fantasy Award, Novella | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | ||||
| 2017 | Locus | Locus Award, Best Novelette | "In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro" | |||
| 2018 | Horror Writers Association | Bram Stoker Award, Long Fiction | "Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung" | |||
| Locus | Locus Award, Best Short Story | "The Fortune of Sparrows" |