Shandana Minhas

[1] She was part of the resurgence in Pakistani media in the early 2000s, heading creative development for the Manduck Collective, Pakistan's first independent production house, and writing for local papers.

[3] Minhas has an MA in prose fiction[4] from the University of East Anglia, and was the recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship.

[6] Her second novel, Survival Tips for Lunatics (2014), is a “bitingly funny” adventure in which a bickering couple accidentally leaves their two sons behind on a camping trip in Pakistan's turbulent Balochistan province.

[8] Minhas's third novel, Daddy’s Boy (2016), tells the story of Asfandyar Ikram, who has no idea that his father is alive - until the day he learns of his death.

[13] Other stories have appeared in literary magazines such as The Indian Quarterly,[14] and A Pakistani Homecoming was published in Dawn, the country's most widely read newspaper, to mark the 70th anniversary of Independence.