Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. She holds an MPhil in English Literature, an MFA in Creative Writing with a high distinction from Kingston University in London, and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck University in London. She writers for numerous local and international publications.Her debut novel, This House of Clay and Water, was published to much critical acclaim by Penguin India in 2017, and was longlisted for Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the German Consulate Peace Prize at the Karachi Literature Festival 2018. It has since been optioned for screen, translated into Turkish by Dedalus Press, and published in audio by Blackstone Publishing USA in 2022.Faiqa lives in Lahore, Pakistan with her family.

‘A contemporary novel of the highest calibre’

Faiqa Mansab is a Pakistani writer. She holds an MPhil in English Literature, an MFA in Creative Writing with a high distinction from Kingston University in London, and an MA in Gender and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck University in London. She writers for numerous local and international publications.Her debut novel, This House of Clay and Water, was published to much critical acclaim by Penguin India in 2017, and was longlisted for Getz Pharma Fiction Prize and the German Consulate Peace Prize at the Karachi Literature Festival 2018. It has since been optioned for screen, translated into Turkish by Dedalus Press, and published in audio by Blackstone Publishing USA in 2022.Faiqa lives in Lahore, Pakistan with her family.

‘A contemporary novel of the highest calibre’