Literature and Art
- Hanif Kureishi - Playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer
- Imtiaz Dharker - Poet and documentary filmmaker
- Moniza Alvi - Poet and writer
- Nadeem Aslam - Novelist
- Razia Iqbal - Arts correspondent for the BBC; born in East Africa and is of Muslim Punjabi origin.
- Qaisra Shahraz - Novelist, journalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a director of Gatehouse Books
- Suhayl Saadi - Literary and erotic novelist and radio/stage playwright.
- Tariq Ali - Historian and novelist
- Ziauddin Sardar - Scholar, writer and cultural critic
Read more about this topic: List Of British Pakistanis
Famous quotes containing the words literature and/or art:
“The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)