Daniyal Mueenuddin (born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, published in the United States by W. W. Norton in 2009, and in nineteen other countries in sixteen languages.
Daniyal's father, Ghulam Mueenuddin, was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and after the Partition of India he became Secretary of Pakistan's Establishment Division, which administered t...
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Daniyal Mueenuddin (born 1963) is a Pakistani-American author of the critically acclaimed short-story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, published in the United States by W. W. Norton in 2009, and in nineteen other countries in sixteen languages.
Daniyal's father, Ghulam Mueenuddin, was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and after the Partition of India he became Secretary of Pakistan's Establishment Division, which administered the civil service (later he was the country's Chief Election Commissioner). In the late 1950s he was posted for several years to Washington as chief negotiator of the Indus Waters Treaty (1960) between India and Pakistan. While living there he met his future American wife Barbara, a reporter at The Washington Post. After a courtship and marriage they moved to Pakistan in 1960, living first in Rawalpindi and later in Lahore. Keeping with an agreement she had made with her father, a surgeon in Los Angeles who had heard of unsanitary conditions in...
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