Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.
Noreen Masud | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pakistan |
| Nationality | British |
| Employer | University of Bristol |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Aphorism in Stevie Smith (2017) |
| Academic advisors | Sally Bayley & Laura Marcus[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) |
| Website | www |
Early life
editMasud was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore, Pakistan. Her paternal ancestral roots are in Shopian, Kashmir, whilst her mother is Scottish and English.[2] As a teenager, Masud moved to Britain with her mother and siblings.[3]
Career
editMasud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.[4] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement[5] and Salon.[6] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.[7]
She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.[8]
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.[9][10] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award,[11] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker, The Guardian and theSunday Times.[12] In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.[13]
Works
edit- Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language. Oxford English Monographs. OUP Oxford. 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-264924-9.
- A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma. Melville House. 2023. ISBN 978-1-68589-024-7.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Aphorism in Stevie Smith". Oxford University Research Archive. University of Oxford. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ Silvers, Isabella (22 April 2024). "Noreen Masud: "Whether or not language contains me, I still exist"". Mixed Messages. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
- ^ Goh, Katie (10 May 2023). "Finding solace from trauma in flat landscapes". Prospect. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Noreen Masud". University of Bristol. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ "Noreen Masud Archives". TLS. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ "Noreen Masud's Articles at Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ "Noreen Masud wins MSA First Book Prize" (Press release). University of Bristol. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Stevie Smith". In Our Time. BBC Radio 4. 16 February 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma". The New York Times. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
- ^ Brooks-Ward, Issy (9 May 2023). "Noreen Masud: A Flat Place - reflective landscapes. Reimagining the feeling of flatness, Masud walks us through her pursuit of a past". The Arts Desk. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
- ^ "Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 27 February 2024. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Noreen Masud". RCW Literary Agency. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ Lipscomb, Suzannah (27 March 2024). "Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women's prize for nonfiction shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ Masud, Noreen. "A Flat Place". Granta.com. Retrieved 10 May 2024.