Bilal Tanweer is the author of the novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great, winner of the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and the translator of Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures, which received a PEN Translation Fund Grant. He lives and teaches in Lahore.

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