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Noreen Masud | |
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| Born | Pakistan |
| Employer | University of Bristol |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Aphorism in Stevie Smith (2017) |
| Academic advisors | Sally Bayley & Laura Marcus [1] |
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| Notable works | A Flat Place:Moving Through Empty Landscapes,Naming Complex Trauma (2023) |
| Website | www |
Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.
Masud was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore,Pakistan. Her paternal ancestral roots are in Shopian,Kashmir,whilst her mother is Scottish and English. [2] As a teenager,Masud moved to Britain with her mother and siblings. [3]
Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. [4] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement [5] and Salon. [6] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism:Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize. [7]
She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time . [8]
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. [9] [10] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, [11] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker , The Guardian and The Sunday Times . [12] In 2024,it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. [13]
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