Bilal Tanweer

Bilal Tanweer (Urdu, Punjabi: ; born 1983) is a Pakistani writer and translator from Lahore. His novel The Scatter Here Is Too Great was awarded the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in 2014, and was shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Chautauqua Prize in 2015. He received the PEN Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's novel Chakiwara Mein Visaal.

Early life Tanweer was born in 1983 in Karachi, Pakistan.

Honours Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in 2014. Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2015. Shortlisted for the Chautauqua Prize in 2015. PEN Translation Fund Grant. Selected as a Fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude for 2015–2017.

Publication The Scatter Here Is Too Great (2013)

Translation The House of Fear (2010) by Ibn-e-Safi Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures (2016) by Muhammad Khalid Akhtar