Noreen Masud
British writer and literary scholar
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Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.
Noreen Masud | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pakistan |
| Employer | University of Bristol |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Aphorism in Stevie Smith (2017) |
Academic advisors | Sally Bayley & Laura Marcus[1] |
| Academic work | |
Notable works | A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) |
| Website | www |
Early life
Career
Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.[4] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement[5] and Salon.[6] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.[7]
She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.[8]
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.[9][10] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award,[11] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker, The Guardian and The Sunday Times.[12] In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.[13]
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.[14]