Season of the Rainbirds

Nadeem Aslam is a British-Pakistani novelist born in 1966 in Gujranwala, Pakistan, who moved to the UK at age 14. His notable works include Season of the Rainbirds (1993), which won the Betty Trask Award and Author's Club First Novel Award; Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), recipient of the Encore Award and Kiriyama Prize; The Wasted Vigil (2008); The Blind Man's Garden (2013); and The Golden Legend (2017). He received the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2014 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2012.com