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USA Today Bestselling author of THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS/ THE LOST LOVE OF AKBAR MANZIL. Words: NYT, McSweeneys, HuffPost.
South Africa
Joined June 2009
I wrote about being single and life with my parents for @nytimes Modern Love series. It feels incredibly unreal (and scary) to share this story but also, wonderful because I know how far we've come. Alhamdulilah for everything.
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My mother told me if I didn’t marry by 25, I would end up “on the shelf.” Still single at 36, I’m learning to appreciate the view.
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Authors Shubnum Khan (The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years) and Genevieve Cogman (Damned) explore the power of fantasy to reshape the past and reimagine the present. New podcast episodes every week. Listen here: 🎧 https://t.co/xztVVKaSm7
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The folk at the brilliant @brittlepaper have compiled my tips for writing here:
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Congrats to Khumisho Moguerane and @ShubnumKhan, winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards! Moguerane's MORAFE explores colonial borders and belonging while Khan's THE LOST LOVE OF AKBAR MANZIL illuminates Indian South African history 👏🏆 https://t.co/x54xJagk4O
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Congratulations to Shubnum Khan and Khumisho Moguerane, our winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards! https://t.co/qrwofPrKd5
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Khumisho Moguerane and Shubnum Khan were announced winners of the 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards, in proud partnership with Exclusive Books
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Congratulations @ShubnumKhan #SundayTimesLiteraryAwards @ExclusiveBooks Winner🏆 🎊 @SundayTimesZA 📸 IG: @feminist_rogue
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You know why reading books is so fun? Because, for once, the problems aren't mine.
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🏆 Triple celebration! @Siphokazi_J wins the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize for WEEPING BECOMES A RIVER while Barbara Boswell (THE COMRADE’S WIFE) and @ShubnumKhan (THE LOST LOVE OF AKBAR MANZIL) share the Main Prize 👏👏👏 https://t.co/BRCKqlAPJI
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The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English has named its 2025 winners following rigorous evaluation by a six-member panel drawn from three universities. The adjudicat...
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Made the Sunday Times Fiction Prize shortlist and got to share it with my parents ❤️
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Just In: DIRCO confirms the SA detainees in Israel are in “good health and high spirits” and that a specialist team has met with the South African delegation at the Israeli Prison facility
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I have just read the last paragraph of this book, and I had to do a moment of silence for every character who ached and longed for love to see and find them. 🥺❤️ Ps: I'm still anti-love and anti-romance🤭
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So delighted for @ShubnumKhan joint main prize winner at the UJ 2025 Book Awards for her wonderful novel The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil. If you haven’t read her novel, grab a copy right now!
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A prayer I did not know I needed: God, please let the right book find me at the right time - for the right book, at the right time can change everything.
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South Africa calls for the safe passage of the Global Sumud Flotilla
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The Government of South Africa reiterates its call for the safe passage of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civil society initiative aimed at delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and raising...
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You mean you expect me to say Eli-za-beth but you can’t say Shub-num?
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The amount of times this has passed my mind while travelling in India. ~excerpt from Mother Mary Comes To Me- Arundhati Roy
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I was invited for a ladies reading retreat in Magaliesberg this month. Good food, a pecan orchard, fireplaces, lots of books and seeing women making time for themselves. Heaven.
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by @ShubnumKhan book review. This is an other-worldly and evocative story about Sana Malik and her father as new tenants in the once grand Akbar Manzil mansion in Durban. https://t.co/g96zJYVKai
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan is an other-worldly, evocative and wonderfully atmospheric story.
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Made this for my nephew who got his university colours in volleyball ❤️
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Trying to book something and found this review.
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