Hammad Rind is a Welsh-Pakistani writer and translator. His debut novel Four Dervishes (Seren Books, 2021), a surrealist satire loosely based on a medieval Persian dastan, was longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award in 2022. His Urdu translation of Naveen Kishore’s debut poetry collection Knotted Grief was published by Zuka Books in 2022. Hammad did a BA in English and Persian literature at the Punjab University, Lahore, and an MA in film making at the Kingston University, London. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The Madras Courier, Y Stamp, James Joyce Broadsheet, Nation Cymru and The Aleph Review. He regularly leads workshops on creative writing, storytelling and Eastern literature.
Hammad is part of the 2023 batch of the Representing Wales programme by Literature Wales. He is currently working on his second novel.
