Rukhsana Ahmad

Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted several plays for the stage and the BBC, achieving distinction in both. River on Fire was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn International Award, Wide Sargasso Sea for the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio adaptation. Her plays include: Song for a Sanctuary, Mistaken: Annie Besant in India, Homing Birds, and Queen of Hearts. More recently, she has written scripts for podcasts: Trial by Fire and Last Thursday.

Fiction: The Hope Chest and The Gatekeeper’s Wife and other stories. 

Rukhsana compiled, edited, and translated We Sinful Women - Contemporary Urdu feminist poetry The Women’s Press 1991.  

The One Who Did Not Ask, a novel by Altaf Fatima translated by Rukhsana from Urdu to English, was first published by Heinemann UK in 1995

In 1991, she co-founded Kali Theatre Company. Rukhsana is also the founding chair of SADAA and was a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at Queen Mary, University of London thrice. She is a committed patron of the Ruth Hayman Trust.

https://www.rukhsanaahmad.com/