Osman Haneef was born in Pakistan and, as the child of a diplomat, grew up in different cities in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. He studied creative writing at Yale, Stanford, Colby, Curtis Brown Creative, and the Faber Academy. His writing has appeared in Dawn, Scroll India, Kitaab, the Aleph Review, and the Yale Journal of International Affairs. He won the UBL Literary Award in Pakistan, and the Frank Allen Bullock Prize for creative writing at the University of Oxford. His work has also been shortlisted for the PFC-VOW Book Awards 2021, and the KLF Getz Pharma Prize For Fiction 2022. Previously, he worked as a tech entrepreneur and a strategy consultant. He was selected as an Acumen Fellow in 2016 and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2017. He lives with his family between the UK and Pakistan.
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