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Abdullah Hussein

Died in 2015

Abdullah Hussain, whose real name was Muhammad Khan, was born on 14 August 1931 in Gujrat, in Punjab. A chemical engineer, trained in Pakistan and then a graduate in Canada, he was working at a cement factory in Daudkhel when he began his first novel. Settled in London in 1970, he ran a drinks business there for almost forty years, wrote other novels and short stories, then returned to Pakistan, where he died, in Lahore, on 4 July 2015.

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