Syima Aslam
Syima Aslam MBE Hon. FRSL | |
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Born | Halifax, England |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Occupation | Literature Festival Director |
Known for | Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature |
Syima Aslam MBE Hon. FRSL is Director and Founder of the Bradford Literature Festival.
Biography[]
Syima Aslam was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, but moved to Bradford while a schoolgirl.[1]
In 2012, The Guardian published an op-ed by Aslam, where she describes all the factors a modern Muslim woman has to consider when she decides whether or not to wear a hijab.[2]
In 2014, Aslam and her friend Irna Qureshi founded the Bradford Literature Festival.[1][3][4]
In 2019, the BBC News asked Aslam to sit on a six person panel to recommend the 100 "most inspiring" novels.[5][6][7]
Awards and honours[]
Aslam was elected as an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2019.[8]
She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to literature.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b Claire Armitstead (2017-06-26). "Brontes, Bradford and Buddhist poetry - meet the women transforming the literary festival". The Guardian. p. 12. ISSN 0261-3077.
- ^ Syima Aslam (2012-12-10). "To hijab or not to hijab- A Muslim Businesswoman's View". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
- ^ Claire Wilde (2015-02-06). "Bradford wins extra Arts Council funding". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ Molly Flatt (2018-07-30). "5 things inspiring Bradford Literature Festival's Syima Aslam right now". The Bookseller. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10.
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"100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts". BBC News. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
The reveal kickstarts the BBC's year-long celebration of literature.
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Alison Flood (2019-11-05). "Discworld dishes Moby-Dick: BBC unveils 100 'novels that shaped our world'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
There’s no Wuthering Heights, no Moby-Dick, no Ulysses, but there is Half of a Yellow Sun, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Discworld: so announced the panel of experts assembled by the BBC to draw up a list of 100 novels that shaped their world.
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"Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Carol Shields featured on BBC's list of 100 novels that shaped the world". CBC News. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
Five Canadian books are on the list: Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, Unless by Carol Shields, Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood and American War by Omar El Akkad.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "RSL Fellows: Syima Aslam". Royal Society of Literature.
- ^ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N16.
- Living people
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People from Halifax, West Yorkshire
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People from Bradford
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