Mirza Waheed Builds A Novel Around Motherhood, Surveillance, And Identity

Mirza Waheed is a novelist and essayist born and raised in Kashmir and living in London. His debut novel, ‘The Collaborator’, was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. His second novel, ‘The Book of Gold Leaves’, was shortlisted for the DSC Prize and longlisted for the Folio Prize. His third novel, ‘Tell Her Everything’, won The Hindu Literary Prize. In this conversation, he discusses his new novel, ‘Maryam & Son’.