How I Write: Daniyal Mueenuddin
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May 11, 2010 | Daniyal Mueenuddin dazzled the literary world with his first short-story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. Publishers Weekly named it one of the top 10 books for 2009. His stories, loosely organized around a landowner in the Punjab and his family, managers, servants and business associates, are mesmerizing, his writing lyrical and concise. Mueenuddin, whose father was Pakistani and mother American, grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and Elroy, Wis. Both sides of the family owned farmland. A poet and lawyer, who once practiced in a New York City law firm, he now manages his family’s land in Pakistan, where he grows sugar cane, wheat, cotton and mangoes. “I love farming,” he says. “It takes great attention. You have to be constantly watching it, monitoring the water, monitoring the soil, and keeping very close track of it.” He applies this same scrutiny to his writing. “Economy is essential and important. Concision should be every writer’s mantra.” |
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