Raza Naeem is a Pakistani social scientist, book critic, and an award-winning translator and dramatic reader currently living in Lahore, where he is the President of the Progressive Writers Association. He has been translating Krishan Chander since 2014, beginning with Naye Ghulam (New Slaves), and has published a comprehensive review of Krishan Chander’s partition stories collected in Hum Vehshi Hen (We Are Savages), 1948). His most recent translation of Krishan Chander is Amritsar, Azadi Se Pehle (Amritsar, Before Independence) for the edited collection Jallianwala Bagh: Literary Responses in Prose and Poetry (Niyogi Books, 2019). His translations have appeared in Out of Print. He can be reached at razanaeem@hotmail.com.
