AMINA AZFAR

Amina Azfar is a freelance editor, writer, and translator. She was educated in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and is a former editor of Oxford University Press, Pakistan. She now works as a freelance editor and translator. Her books, The Dust of the Road, and The Oxford Book of Urdu Short Stories received the Hasan Askari Award for best translation work from the Pakistan Academy of Letters, in the years 27 and 29, respectively. Azfar has authored textbooks, as well as storybooks for children in Urdu and English. She has contributed articles to various newspapers, and reviewed books for the Pakistani newspaper, Dawn. Before joining OUP, she taught English language at the Pakistan American Cultural Centre in Karachi for nine years.