The Yale University’s 2014 Windham Cambell Literature Prize has been won by the Pakistani writer, Nadeem Aslam for his fiction piece. Nadeem Aslam work was based on an exploration of historical and political trauma blended with compassion. Besides Aslam, there are seven more winners as well from the fiction, non-fiction and drama category.
The winners will receive $150,000 each as a prize for their works. Writers were unaware of the nominations and this news seemed to shock most of them. Nadeem Aslam is a resident of Gujranwala and was born in 1966, but he moved to Britain in his teens. Nadeem said that his work was a response to the world that he was living in and the reader’s appreciation of his works made him feel less alone.
Aslam has penned down, “The Season of the Rainbirds”,” Maps for Lost Lovers”, “The Wasted Vigil”, and “The Blind Man’s Garden” which has been written recently. All eight writers will receive their prizes in person at a ceremony at Yale on September 15, 2014. The ceremony will be followed by a three-day literary festival as a tribute to the works of the recipient.