Muhammad Asim Butt

Muhammad Asim Butt is an Urdu novelist, short story writer, translator, researcher, editor, critic and journalist. He has published three novels and two collections of short stories along with a number of books translated from English into Urdu and vice versa. Butt also writes in English.

Biography

Butt was born into a muslim literary family of ethnic Kashmiri descent, long settled in Punjab. Since 2006 he has worked with the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Government of Pakistan, as editor of the quarterly Adabiyaat, a literary magazine.

Publications

Fiction

• Ishtihaar Aadami (Ad man اشتہار آدمی) (short stories), Fiction House, Lahore, Pakistan, 1998
• Daira (Circle دائرہ) (novel), Sanjh Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 2001
• Dastak (Knock دستک) (short stories), Dunyazaad, Karachi, Pakistan, 2010

• Naatamaam (An Unending Story ناتمام) (novel), Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, 2014
• Bhaid (Secret بھید) (novel), Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, 2018
• Paani Pe Likhi Kahaani (A story written on water پانی پہ لکھی کہانی) (novel), Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, 2024

Translations

English to Urdu

• Japani Kahanian ( selected short stories from Japanese Literature), Sareer Publications, Pakistan, 2019
• Borgese Kahanian بورخیس کہانیاں ( selected short stories by Gorge Luis Borgese), Sang e Meel Publications, Lahore, Pakistan, 2017
• So Azeem Aadami سو عظیم آدمی (The 100 by Michael H. Hart), Takhleeqat Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1992
• Muhabbat Key Khatoot محبت کے خطوط (Love Letters by Khalil Gibran), Takhleeqat Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1993
• Kafka Kahanian کافکا کہانیاں (translation of stories by Franz Kafka), Jang Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1994.
• Mukhtasar Tareekh-e-Alam (A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells), Takhleeqat Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1995.
• Marco Polo Ka Safarnama مارکو پولو کا سفر نامہ (Travelogue by Marco Polo), Takhleeqat Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 1999.
• Muhammad (' by Karen Armstrong), Takhleeqat Publishers, Lahore, Pakistan, 2002.
• Toahamat ki Dunya توہمات کی دنیا (by Carl Sagan), Mashal, Lahore, Pakistan, 2003.
• Bai Moasam Key Phool (A selection of Japanese stories), Mashal, Lahore, Pakistan, 2003.
• Sarif Nama صارف نامہ (introduction to consumer rights), The Network for Consumer Protection, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2004.
• Fidelio فیڈیلیو (by Ludwig van Beethoven), Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Fur Die Freiheit, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2011.
• Taaleem Ka Liberal Nuqta-e-Nazar تعلیم کا لبرل نقطہ نظر (Liberal Readings on Education (by Stefan Melnik and Sascha Tamm [Eds.]), Friedrich Naumann Stiftung Fur Die Freiheit, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2012.

Urdu to English