Aamer Hussain

Quick Facts

Full Name	Aamer Hussain
Occupation	Short Story Writer
Date Of Birth	Apr 8, 1955(1955-04-08)
Age	69
Birthplace	Karachi
Country	Pakistan
Birth City	Sindh
Horoscope	Aries

Aamer Hussain Biography

Aamer Hussain is one of the most popular and richest Short Story Writer who was born on April 8, 1955 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Hussein grew up in Karachi, where he attended Lady Jennings School and the Convent of Jesus and Mary. He spent most summers with his mother’s family in India. He studied in Ootacamund, South India, for two years before moving to London in 1970. Hussein is fluent in seven languages: English, Urdu, Hindi, French, Italian, Spanish and Persian.

Some of Hussein’s earliest stories, such as “The Colour of a Loved Person’s Eyes”, “Little Tales”, “Your Children” and “Karima”, appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the journals Critical Quarterly and Artrage, and anthologies including Colours of a New Day: Writing for South Africa (Lawrence & Wishart, 1990), God: An Anthology of Fiction (Serpent’s Tail, 1992) and Border Lines: Stories of Exile & Home (Serpent’s Tail, 1994). His first collection of stories, Mirror to the Sun, was published in 1993. Since then, to increasing critical acclaim from contemporaries such as Shena Mackay, William Palmer, Mary Flanagan, Amit Chaudhuri and Tabish Khair, he has published four further collections – This Other Salt (1999), Turquoise (2002), Cactus Town (2003), and Insomnia (2007) – as well as the novella, Another Gulmohar Tree (2009) and the novel The Cloud Messenger (2011). He has also edited a volume of stories by Pakistani women, Kahani (2005), which includes his own translations from the Urdu of Altaf Fatima, Khalida Hussain and Hijab Imtiaz Ali. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004, “probably the first writer of Pakistani origin to be elected”. His reviews have appeared in the Literary Review, The Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and are now regularly seen on the book pages of The Independent. He has also written essays on Urdu literature for The Annual of Urdu Studies and Moving Worlds, and in 2012 he published a selection of stories in Urdu in the Karachi journal Duniyazad.

Aamer Hussain Net Worth

Aamer Hussain is one of the richest Short Story Writer from Pakistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Aamer Hussain 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Aamer Hussein (born 8 April 1955, Karachi) is a Pakistani critic and short story writer

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Ala Ranked on the list of most popular Short Story Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Pakistan. Aamer Hussain celebrates birthday on April 8 of every year.