Noreen Masud | |
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Born | Pakistan |
Nationality | British |
Employer | University of Bristol |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Aphorism in Stevie Smith (2017) |
Academic advisors | Sally Bayley & Laura Marcus [1] |
Academic work | |
Notable works | A Flat Place:Moving Through Empty Landscapes,Naming Complex Trauma (2023) |
Website | www |
Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.
She was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore,Pakistan,and as a teenager moved to Britain with her mother and siblings. [2]
Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. [3] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement [4] and Salon. [5] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism:Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize. [6]
She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time . [7]
Her memoir A Flat Place:Moving Through Empty Landscapes,Naming Complex Trauma (2023) describes her childhood in Pakistan,moving to Scotland aged 15,and the complex post-traumatic stress disorder from which she suffers. [8] [9] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, [10] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker , The Guardian and the Sunday Times . [11] In 2024,it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. [12]
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