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Sorayya Khan (1962- ) is a novelist who was born in Europe and moved to Islamabad in 1972 with her parents, where she graduated from the International School. She received degrees in the United States from Allegheny College and the Graduate School of International Studies, Colorado. Khan has received a Fulbright award and Constance Saltonstall Foundation Artist Grant. Her story, "In the Shadows of the Margalla Hills," won the 1995 Malahat Review First Novella prize. The daughter of a Pakistani father and Dutch mother, the idea of the world's interconnectedness is central to her novel, Noor (Alhamra, 2003) and Five Queen's Road (Penguin Books India, 2008).
