Bilal Tanweer is a writer and translator. He is the author of the novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great and the children’s book The Boy Who Thought He Was A Car. His translations include Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures, Sa’adat Hasan Manto, Sarmad Sehbai, and Ibn-e Safi. He was the Chair of Jury for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He teaches at LUMS, Lahore.
Jun 23, 2025
Kafka's In the Penal Colony provides an insight into the psychology of power at play in the violence that has been inflicted on the Palestinians. What does it mean for writers to refuse to be "tourists" to this spectacle of suffering?