QAISRA SHAHRAZ
QAISRA SHAHRAZ is a British-Pakistani award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. Shahraz was recognised as one of 100 influential Pakistani women in the ‘Pakistan Power 100 List’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an adviser to and former Director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators partnership. Her novels The Holy Woman, Typhoon, and Revolt as well as short story A Pair of Jeans are translated into several languages and studied in universities and schools. Shahraz is a gender and peace activist. She devotes a lot of her time and energies to building cultural bridges and promoting messages of tolerance and community cohesion in the UK and abroad through her literary tours.
Prizes
Winner of the UK National Diversity Lifetime Achiever Award for Services to Literature, Education, Gender and Interfaith Activism..
