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Prizewinning Fiction

‘The Sea’: Read the story that won the 2020 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation

The winner: Haider Shahbaz’s translation of ‘Samundar’, by Khalida Hussain.

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‘Kali_Na’: Indrapramit Das’s sci-fi short story has won the Shirley Jackson award for short fiction

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