Shahnaz BashirShahnaz Bashir was born and brought up in Kashmir. His widely reviewed and critically lauded debut novel The Half Mother won the Muse India Young Writer Award 2015. In its New Year special issue of January 2016, Kashmir Life, a popular weekly tabloidof Jammu and Kashmir, profiled Shahnaz as 'one of the nine impact makers to stand out in the 12.5 million population of the state'. Read More Read Less