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    Danial Mueenuddinś Biography

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    Daniyal Mueenuddin was a Pakistani-American author born in 1963 in Los Angeles. He spent parts of his childhood in Pakistan and the US. He attended Yale Law School but left to pursue a career in writing. Mueenuddin's stories are set in Pakistan and told from a limited third-person perspective, focusing on the experiences of a central character. His writing evokes the complexities of Pakistani society and shows sympathy for both aristocrats and servants. Mueenuddin won several awards for his short stories, including The Story Prize in 2009.

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    Daniyal Mueenuddin was a Pakistani-American author born in 1963 in Los Angeles. He spent parts of his childhood in Pakistan and the US. He attended Yale Law School but left to pursue a career in writing. Mueenuddin's stories are set in Pakistan and told from a limited third-person perspective, focusing on the experiences of a central character. His writing evokes the complexities of Pakistani society and shows sympathy for both aristocrats and servants. Mueenuddin won several awards for his short stories, including The Story Prize in 2009.

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    Daniyal Mueenuddin was a Pakistani-American author born in 1963 in Los Angeles. He spent parts of his childhood in Pakistan and the US. He attended Yale Law School but left to pursue a career in writing. Mueenuddin's stories are set in Pakistan and told from a limited third-person perspective, focusing on the experiences of a central character. His writing evokes the complexities of Pakistani society and shows sympathy for both aristocrats and servants. Mueenuddin won several awards for his short stories, including The Story Prize in 2009.

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    Daniyal Mueenuddin was a Pakistani-American author born in 1963 in Los Angeles. He spent parts of his childhood in Pakistan and the US. He attended Yale Law School but left to pursue a career in writing. Mueenuddin's stories are set in Pakistan and told from a limited third-person perspective, focusing on the experiences of a central character. His writing evokes the complexities of Pakistani society and shows sympathy for both aristocrats and servants. Mueenuddin won several awards for his short stories, including The Story Prize in 2009.

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    Name:

    Shahzaib Ali
    Roll No:
    15164
    Class:
    M.A English
    Semester:
    3
    Shift:
    Afternoon
    Assignment:
    2
    Course Title:
    Pakistan Literature
    Institute:
    National University of Modern Language
    Q:

    Explain complete autobiography of “Daniyal Mueenuddin” including his


    writing style.
    Daniyal Mueenuddin was born in Los Angeles, USA on 1963. He was a Pakistani-American
    author who writes in English. His father Ghulam Mueenuddin was a member of Indian Civil
    Service and after the independence of Pakistan he became the Secretary of Pakistan’s
    Establishment Division. Daniyal’s father was posted for several years to Washington as chief
    negotiator of the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) between Pakistan and India, where he met with
    his future American wife Barbara, who was a reporter at The Washington Post. After marriage
    they moved to Pakistan, first lived in Rawalpindi and then to Lahore. Barbara’s father was a
    specialist surgeon in Los Angeles, who heard the unsanitary conditions in Pakistani hospitals, so
    according to agreement she went back to USA where Mueenuddin was born. Mueenuddin
    attended the Lahore American School. He remembers the magical time of his youth which
    include hunting and riding. Mueenuddin and his brother Tamur often visited the USA in
    summers. At 13, his parents separated then they moved to USA with their mother. He spent
    five years at pre-school (Groton School), later he graduated magna cum loude from Dartmouth
    College. He returned to Pakistan where his father asked him to rescue the farm. In 1990, his
    father died, so he ran the farm as business by hiring good managers, and paying them well.

    In 1993, farm running fairly smoothly, so he decided to moved back to USA where he attended
    Yale Law School for three years. He was serving as Editor-in Chief of the Yale Journal of
    International Law and as director of the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights
    Clinic. However, he found the life unsatisfying and decided to begin new career in writing.

    Daniyal Mueenuddin was a talented, humorous, elegiac, and tragic writer. He evokes the
    complexities of Pakistani society in his writings.He is capable of showing the inner lives of
    aristocrats and their servants with equal sympathy, and power in his writings. Daniyal
    Mueenuddin stories are told from the past tense and third person. His stories are also told from
    a limited perspectives which means that the narration in each piece focuses primarily on the
    experiences, perspectives, and thought of that piece’s central character or protagonist but
    there are several stories in which the inner life of the character other than the protagonist is
    explored: for example, “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” much of the narration is focused on
    the experiences and perspectives of protagonist Husna, but there are also glimpses into the
    inner life of K.K Harouni, the man with whom Husna became involved.

    Mueenuddin was the winner of the 2010 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the
    American Academy of Arts and Letters. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” was the winner of
    The Story Prize for 2009, and the 2010 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. His short story
    “A Spoiled Man” was selected for the 2010 edition of The Pen/O Henry Prize Stories. His short
    story “Nawabdin Electrician” was selected for the Best American Short Stories of 2008.

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