Dr Rakhshanda Jalil is a multi-award-winning translator, writer and literary historian. She has published over twenty-five books and written over fifty academic papers and essays. Some of her books include Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu (OUP, 2014); a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan, A Rebel and Her Cause (Women Unlimited, 2014); a translation of The Sea Lies Ahead, Intizar Husain's seminal novel on Karachi (HarperCollins, 2015); Gulzar's Footprints on Zero Line: Writings on the Partition (HarperCollins, 2017); and a collection of essays entitled But You Don't Look Like a Muslim (HarperCollins, 2019). She runs an organization called Hindustani Awaaz, devoted to the popularization of Hindi-Urdu literature and culture.
