Adam Zameenzad

Adam Zameenzad is the pseudonym for Saleem Ahmed, (14 March 1937 - 04 December 2017) A Pakistani-born British writer.

The son of Fatima Aziz and Shammim Ahmad, he was born and educated in Pakistan and lived in Kenya, Canada and the USA before moving to Britain where he lived until his death in December 2017.

[1] His novels are; The Thirteenth House (winner of the 1987 David Higham Prize for Fiction), My Friend Matt and Hena the Whore, Love, Bones and Water, Cyrus Cyrus, Gorgeous White Female and Pepsi & Maria.

[2] Pepsi and Maria, a novel about the lives of street children, was published in 2004[3] Zameenzad was the first Pakistani English novelist to explore transgender issues with his tight, multilayered novel Gorgeous White Female, published in 1995.

[4] Adam Zameenzad's Official website Adam Zameenzad's Agent This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub.