Another Win for Pakistan

Usman T. Malik is on a roll, winning yet another accolade for his collection of short stories Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan, published last year by Kitab, Karachi.

At the 2022 World Fantasy Awards held earlier this week, Midnight Doorways snagged the top spot in the category Best Collection. Others vying for the same prize included Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes, Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford, The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales by Angela Slatter, The Ghost Sequences by A.C. Wise and Never Have I Ever: Stories by Isabel Yap.

First presented in 1975, the World Fantasy Awards are given annually for outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction in the categories Novel, Novella, Short Fiction, Anthology, Collection, Artist and two Special Awards.

In February this year, Malik became the first Pakistani to ever win the Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a debut book of fantasy, since the award’s inception in 1985.

Published in Dawn, Books & Authors, November 13th, 2022