MUSHARRAF ALI FAROOQI is an author, novelist and translator. He was born in 1968 in Hyderabad, Pakistan, and now lives in Toronto, Canada.

His novel The Story Of A Widow was published in August 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf, Canada, and a children's picture book The Cobbler's Holiday Or Why Ants Don't Wear Shoes came out in September 2008 from A Neal Porter Book, Roaring Brook Press. His critically acclaimed translation of The Adventures Of Amir Hamza of Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami was published by Modern Library in 2007. He has recently published the first book of a projected 24-volume translation of the world's first magical fantasy epic Tilism-e Hoshruba (1883-1893).

He is currently colloborating with Michelle Farooqi on the graphic novel Rabbit Rap, and translating the second book of the Tilism-e Hoshruba ( 1883-1893).

LATEST NEWS

* Quill & Quire magazine on the publication of HOSHRUBA

* Wesleyan University Press Poetry Series to publish Afzal Ahmed Syed's poetry selection ROCOCO AND OTHER WORLDS translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi.

* Daily Dawn has begun weekly serialization of Musharraf Ali Farooqi's translation of HOSHRUBA..