Fauzia Rafique

Fauzia Rafique is a novelist, poet and an arts organizer. Her Punjabi novel Keeru (Lahore, 2019) won Ali Arshad Mir Award 2020 while her debut novel Skeena received WIN Canada's Distinguished Novelist & Poet award in 2012. Skeena's Punjabi edition (Lahore, 2007) is Pakistan's most-sold Punjabi novel since 2008. Fauzia's humorous fantasy titled The Adventures of Saheban: Biography of a Relentless Warrior was released in 2016. Fauzia's novels have been published in Canada, India and Pakistan. In Pakistan, Fauzia worked as a journalist in the 70s and the 80s. Her adaptation of Dostoevsky's novella became Pakistan Television's first Punjabi drama serial Appay Ranjha Hoi.