British · b. 1966
Nadeem Aslam writes about Pakistan and its diaspora with lyrical intensity. "Maps for Lost Lovers" (2004), longlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a Pakistani community in an English town where an "honor killing" exposes cultural fault lines. Aslam was born in Pakistan and raised in England; his prose is dense with image and metaphor. His novels take years to write and reward the wait.