Muhammad Asim Butt


Muhammad Asim Butt is an Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist. He has published three novels and two collections of short stories along with a number of books translated from English into Urdu and vice versa. Butt also writes in English.

Biography

Since 2006 he has worked with the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Government of Pakistan, as Editor of the quarterly Adabiyaat, a literary magazine.

Publications

Fiction

English to Urdu
Urdu to English
Asim's novel Naatamaam ناتمام won Akse Khushbu Literary Award for Fiction for 2014.
Asim's novel Natamaam ناتمام has won UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2015.
Asim's book "Borkhese Kahanian" was short listed for the UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2019.
A selection of best short stories of Urdu Despairing Voices: Selected Urdu Short Stories compiled and translated by Syed Sarwar Hussein, published by Satyam Publishing House, India, 2011 includes two short stories of Butt.
A detailed research thesis based on the critical analysis of three modern Urdu novelists including Butt, by Robina Sultan, published with the title "Teen Nai Novel Nigar" by Dastaaveez Matbuaat, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012.
He participated as a speaker in the Oxford Literary Festival arranged by Oxford, Pakistan and British Council, Pakistan at Islamabad, Pakistan from 30 April to 1 May 2013.