Bilal Tanweer's novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great (HarperCollins) won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Chautauqua Prize (US). The novel was also translated into French (Éditions Stock) and German (Carl Hanser Verlag).

His translation of Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's novel and stories was published as Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures (Pan Macmillan India) and received the PEN Translation Fund Grant. He has also translated two novels by the crime fiction writer Ibn-e Safi, The House of Fear (Random House India). With Pauline Fan, he curated "Translations: South and Southeast Asia" for the Commonwealth Foundation's adda, featuring 32 literary translations from 15 languages of the region.

He is the author of the children's book The Boy Who Thought He Was a Car (Ilqa, 2025), and was Chair of Jury for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Dawn and The Caravan. He lives and teaches in Lahore.

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