THE COLOUR OF MY HEART: on reading Faiz

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Published Apr 16, 2013

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Aamer Hussein

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This is a reflective piece narrating a journey from the heart to the lyrics of Faiz.  The author looks back autobiographically at himself as a young boy travelling from Karachi to London with an interlude in Oooty. He comes of age in metropolitan London and finds himself returning to his linguistic roots. He ends on a nostalgic note recounting an old encounter between himself and the writer in London mirroring the memory of a cosmopolitan poetic journey intersecting with different cultures.

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Vol 5 No 1 (2013): Special Issue on Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Transcreating Faiz
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Author Biography

Aamer Hussein

Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1955, and moved to London in his teens.He has been writing fiction since the mid-'eighties, and his work has been widely anthologised in many languages including Spanish, Arabic, Japanese and Urdu. He is the author of the short story collections, Mirror to the Sun (1993), This Other Salt (1999), Turquoise (2002), Cactus Town and other stories (2002) and Insomnia (2007). He is also the editor of Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women (2005), a revised and extended edition of Hoops of Fire (1999). His book Another Gulmohar Tree (2009), a novella, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book).  His latest book is a novel, The Cloud Messenger (2011). He reviews regularly for The Independent, lectures at the University of Southampton, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies (University of London) and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004. He has served on the jury of the 2002 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize and the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Article Tools