Faiqa Mansab

Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. Her first novel, This House ofClay and Water was published by Penguin India in 2017. It was anAmazon Editor’s Pick, Amazon International Women’s Writingpick and was shortlisted for the Getz-Pharma Literary Award andthe German Consulate Peace Prize in 2018. The novel has been translated into Turkish and is available as an audiobook by Blackstone Publishing USA. It has also been optioned for screenadaptation. Faiqa’s work in English has also appeared in Lucy Writer’s Platform, Cambridge; The Missing Slate, London;Medusa, London; and in Punjabi she has written for Barahmah,Pakistan. The Sufi Storyteller is her second novel. She lives with herfamily in Lahore.