Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968, Hyderabad, Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer, translator, and storyteller. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. In addition to his fiction and translation projects, he is working on establishing an Urdu language publishing program specializing in children's literature and classics. He founded the publishing house KITAB (2012), launched the online Urdu Thesaurus (2016), and designed the interactive storytelling and reading initiative STORYKIT Program (2016). These three projects have been integrated in an activity-based learning program for children. The Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa is his newest work