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Hammad Rind is a W elsh-Pakistani writer and translator H is debut novel ?Four D ervishes?(Seren Books, 20 21), a satire loosely based on a dastan by Indian poet A mir Khusro, was long-listed for the British Science Fiction A ssociation A ward. H e is the U rdu translator of N aveen Kishore?s debut poetry collection ?Knotted Grief? H ammad did a BA in English and Persian literature and law at the Punjab U niversity, Lahore, and an M A in film making at the Kingston U niversity, London H e is currently working on his second novel