Hasan Mansoor

Hasan Mansoor is a Sindhi language writer based in Karachi. Professionally a journalist affiliated with various Pakistani and international publications, Mansoor started writing short stories in early 1980s. His first short story 'Moon Mein Aahen Toon' (You are within me) was published in Hilal Magazine in 1983 and he wrote over a dozen short stories till 1994. He remained out of literary scene for over 10 years mainly because of his hectic journalistic preoccupations and then returned to the Sindhi magazines in early 2005. In just one year, Mansoor, born in Karachi in 1968, wrote 18 stories and most of them have been published in Sojhro and Krizma magazines. Hasan Mansoor has written mainly on social and political subjects but he has not yet contributed a pure romantic story that most of South Asian writers have contributed in abundance. His stories Nargis jo Peou (Father of Nargis), Bukh jo Put (Son of Hunger) and Aaoon ain Hoo (Me and He) were important stories written by him in the first phase of his writing career. The latter has been translated in Urdu and published in Adamzad publications' Duniya Duniya Dehshat Hai (The world is in grip of terror). In Second phase, Mansoor has written Bund Ghitiyoon (Closed Streets), the first ever short story on the phenomenon of suicide bombing in Pakistan written in any language of Pakistan. He has also on his credit great short stories like Teeh April (30th April), written on General Pervez Musharraf's controversial referendum on April 30, 2002, Waat-phhato (Outspoken), on the scandalous privatization policies of Pakistani government and Mudfan Saah Khannan Tha (Graves do breathe), in which the writer discusses one of the millions of tragedies occurred in wake of the partition of India in 1947 with different and latest perspective. Mansoor also wrote poetry, ghazals in particular, during his early days in the world of literature, but now has adopted his permanent abode in fiction.