Noreen Masud

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Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.

She is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.[1] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement[2] and Salon.[3]

She has been on In Our Time.[citation needed]

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.[4] It was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award.[5] In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.[6]

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.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Noreen Masud". University of Bristol. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  2. ^ "Noreen Masud Archives". TLS. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  3. ^ "Noreen Masud's Articles at Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 2024-02-27. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  6. ^ Lipscomb, Suzannah (2024-03-27). "Electric, poignant, exquisitely written: inside the inaugural Women's prize for nonfiction shortlist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  7. ^ "From Lahore to Orford Ness, Searching for the Roots of Trauma". 2023-06-06. Retrieved 2023-08-11.

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