Birth— 1975
Where—Karachi
Education— 
Currently—Karachi

Bibliography

• Daddy’s Boy (2016)

• Survival Tips for Lunatics (2015)

• Tunnel Vision (2007)

A college dropout, Shandana Minhas has been a columnist, a high school teacher, a university lecturer, an actor, a copywriter, a screenwriter, a playwright, an anchorperson, a mother, and a TED Fellow.

Her first novel, Tunnel Vision published in 2007 was nominated nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book for the novel.

Her second book, Survival Tips for Lunatics, was for young adults and won the KLF French Embassy Fiction Prize for 2015.

Currently she lives in Karachi with her two sons.

Daddy’s Boy (2016)
Shandana Minhas
Set against the backdrop of the 2013 general elections in Pakistan, the novel examines the underlying truth of the lives of its characters The book begins with the rare and seemingly expected death of Anis Nabi in Karachi. Asfandyar, his estranged son who never knew he was still alive, leaves the calm rhythm of his life in Lahore and flies down to the busy, bustling metropolis to fulfil his father’s last wishes. 

Tunnel Vision (2007)
Shandana Minhas
Pakistan is much in the world’s thoughts. This touching and spunky story of a young Pakistani woman’s rejection of imposed and stereotyped ‘feminities’ is honest, brutal and timely. The novel is a social form, it is always new, it is cast in the mould of human nature and human society.