Noreen Masud

Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.

She was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore, Pakistan, and as a teenager moved to Britain with her mother and siblings.

Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Her work has been published in ''The Times Literary Supplement'' and ''Salon''. Her monograph ''Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language'' (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.

She has been on BBC Radio 4's ''In Our Time''.

Her memoir ''A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma'' (2023) describes her childhood in Pakistan, moving to Scotland aged 15, and the complex post-traumatic stress disorder from which she suffers. ''A Flat Place'' was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, and was a Book of the Year in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Guardian'' and the'' Sunday Times''. In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. Provided by Wikipedia