Noreen Masud

Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.

She was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore, Pakistan, and as a teenager moved to Britain with her mother and siblings.

Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement and Salon. Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.

She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.

Her memoir A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) describes her childhood in Pakistan, moving to Scotland aged 15, and the complex post-traumatic stress disorder from which she suffers. A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award, and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker, The Guardian and theSunday Times. In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.

Works

• Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language. Oxford English Monographs. OUP Oxford. 2022. ISBN 978-0-19-264924-9.
• A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma. Melville House. 2023. ISBN 978-1-68589-024-7.

References

External links

• Official website
• "Noreen Masud on finding comfort in flat places", 8 June 2023.

1. Noreen (given name)
2. Hay Festival
3. Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
4. List of In Our Time programmes
5. Jhalak Prize
6. Stevie Smith
7. BNY Mellon
8. Aurangzeb Leghari
9. Abid Ali (actor)
10. List of linguists
11. Lehri (actor)
12. Deaths in December 2022