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Shazaf Fatima Haider

Fiction: Thrown out of her home, Seema has two choices – submit to her husband or leave forever

An excerpt from ‘A Woman on a Suitcase’, by Shazaf Fatima Haider.

Shazaf Fatima Haider
· Sep 26, 2024 · 05:30 pm
‘My first short story, written at the age of 14, had an unhappy fate. But it rescued me.’

Writer Shazaf Fatima Haider recounts the scandalous beginning to her literary career.

Shazaf Fatima Haider
· May 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm
Stalked, patronised, dismissed: On being a woman writer in Pakistan (it’s often the same in India)

And, ultimately, not read enough. All of these, by men.

Shazaf Fatima Haider
· Jan 09, 2017 · 08:30 am