Rahman Abbas

Rahman Abbas won India?s highest literary award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 2018 for his fourth Urdu novel Rohzin. He has also won two state Sahitya Akademi awards. Rahman writes in Urdu and English. When his first novel was published, Islamists had accused him of spreading obscenity through his work and had filed a case against his novel. He was forced to resign from his job, as he was teaching at a Muslim institution. Rahman fought a court trial for over ten years and was acquitted in 2016 of obscenity charges. Rohzin has been translated into German, English and Hindi, and has received the prestigious LitProm Grant managed by the Swiss and German governments. Rahman lives in Mumbai and works for Strategic Foresight Group.