Tahir Aslam Gora
Pakistan

An editor, publisher and fiction writer, Tahir Gora founded Gora Publishers in 1987, which published more than 100 works of literature and books on the social sciences. He also served as editor-in-chief of the socio-political weekly journal, Hafta, and the literary journal Rujhanaat. He was active in several literary and cultural organizations in Pakistan and was a noted critic of religious intolerance in that country. He fled to Canada in the spring of 1999 following threats to his life. Gora edits and publishes a weekly Urdu-language newspaper in Toronto called Watan. He has published three collections of short stories, one novel and a collection of poems. Some of his work has been translated into Russian and English. He is currently at work on a book about Islam.

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