Rukhsana Ahmad (born 1948) is a Pakistani writer of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, and a translator, who after marriage migrated to England for further studies and pursue a career in writing.
[4][clarification needed] As a popular playwright she has written numerous plays, such as Song for a Sanctuary, which launched her career in radio and stage shows and Mistaken...Annie Besant in India (2007).
She has also adapted plays for BBC Radio, including Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam.
She has founded the South Asian Arts and Literature in the Diaspora Archive in the United Kingdom known as Salidaa (now Sadaa).
For her play Wide Sargasso Sea she received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain radio adaptation award.