Mirza Athar Baig
MIRZA ATHAR BAIG is one of the most important contemporary writers in the Urdu language. A veteran professor of postmodern and postcolonial philosophy at Government College University, Lahore, Mirza announced his entry into ficion with avant-garde works that completely reshaped the field of contemporary Urdu fiction. He is the author of three novels – Ghulam Bagh, Sifr Se Aik Tak and Hassan Ki Surat-e-Haal – a collection of ‘anti-stories', and more than a hundred plays for television.