Abdullah Hussein was born in Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan) in 1937. His first novel, The Weary Generations, was published in 1963 and won the prestigious Pakistani Adamji Prize. In 1996 the BBC based a feature film, Brothers in Trouble, on one of his novellas. Regarded as the leading novelist in the Urdu language, he lived in Britain from 1967 to 1999 when he returned to Pakistan.
