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Jamil Ahmad began his career in the region in the 1950s, and was an official in the Pakistani embassy in Kabul at the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979. He was encouraged to write by his wife Helga, who painstakingly typed the handwritten manuscript on a typewriter with German keys. He lives in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Books by Jamil Ahmad

The Wandering Falcon

A stark and compelling new voice in fiction and an unprecedented insight into one of the most under-reported regions on earth

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