Rakhshanda Jalil is a multi-award-winning translator, writer and literary historian. She has published over 25 books and written over 50 academic papers and essays. Her books include Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu; Liking Progress, Loving Change: A Literary History of the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu; a biography of Urdu feminist writer Dr Rashid Jahan: A Rebel and her Cause; and a translation of Intizar Hussain’s The Sea Lies Ahead.