Muhammad Asim Butt | |
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Nationality | Pakistani |
Alma mater | Government College University, Lahore |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, Researcher, editor, critic and journalist |
Institutions | Pakistan Academy of Letters |
Muhammad Asim Butt [a] is an Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist. [1] [2] [3] He has published three novels and two collections of short stories along with a number of books translated from English into Urdu and vice versa. Butt also writes in English. [4] [5] [6]
Butt was born into a muslim literary family of ethnic Kashmiri descent, long settled in Punjab. Since 2006 he has worked with the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Government of Pakistan, as editor of the quarterly Adabiyaat, a literary magazine. [7]
English to Urdu
Urdu to English
Asim's novel Naatamaam ناتمام won Akse Khushbu (عکس خوشبو) Literary Award for Fiction for 2014. [34] [35]
Asim's novel Natamaam ناتمام has won UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2015. [36]
Asim's book Kafka Kahaanian کافکا کہانیاں won Parveen Shakir Trust Literary Award for best translation for 2024. [37]
Asim's book "Borkhese Kahanian" (بورخیس کہانیاں) (Urdu translation of short stories of Jorge Luis Borges) was short listed for the UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2019. [38]
A selection of best short stories of Urdu Despairing Voices: Selected Urdu Short Stories compiled and translated by Syed Sarwar Hussein, published by Satyam Publishing House, India, 2011 includes two short stories of Butt. [39]
A detailed research thesis based on the critical analysis of three modern Urdu novelists including Butt, by Robina Sultan, published with the title "Teen Nai Novel Nigar" by Dastaaveez Matbuaat, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012. [40]
He participated as a speaker in the Oxford Literary Festival arranged by Oxford, Pakistan and British Council, Pakistan at Islamabad, Pakistan from 30 April to 1 May 2013. [41] [42]
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