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Daisy Hasan The Collaborator, by Mirza Waheed Viking, London, 2011, pbk, 320pp, £12.99, 9780670918959, www.penguin.co.uk Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator focuses on the story of a young Gujjar boy recruited to collaborate with an official in the Indian army in the Kashmir Valley. As he collects the i…

Jay Bernard came to comics via poetry; her first pamphlet, Your Sign is Cuckoo Girl (2007), was followed by a graphic poem in City State (2009). In the interim she produced graphic reviews for culturewars.org.uk and penned a strip entitled Budo. Most recently, she was artist-in-residence at StAnza a…

Award-winning Pakistani author, Bina Shah’s short story, ‘Peter Pochmann Goes to Pakistan’, features in issue 65. Bina talks to Wasafiri’s Nisha Obano about her writing, her journalism, the influence of Karachi and the growing tension in Pakistan upon her work. Nisha Obano  Bina, you are a writer an…

Moniza Alvi Ten: New Poets Spread the Word, edited by Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra Bloodaxe Books, Tarset, 2010, pbk, 128pp, £8.95, 978182248796, www.bloodaxebooks.com This anthology is the eagerly awaited fruit of Spread the Word’s initiative to support talented poets with black and Asian b…

When Wasafiri turned 25 in 2009, 25 authors were asked to select an influential book from, or upon, the last 25 years. In addition, Wasafiri asked its own Editorial Team and Board what their suggestions might be. Melanie Abrahams: Orange Laughter by Leone Ross Sharmilla Beezmohun: Daughters of Afric…

Wasafiri Editor, Susheila Nasta, selected her top ten books for the Guardian in 2009. ‘The tragic-comic creation of a black city of words that was both magnet and nightmare for its new colonial citizens is a must.’ ‘An intimate African-American classic which looks forward to Morrison’s award-winning…