Are Writers Late Bloomers?
It took more than three decades for Pakistani writer and retired civil-servant Jamil Ahmad to get published at the age of sevety-eight. The first draft of what became The Wandering Falcon thirty years later was written in his spare time in the 1970 and completed in 1974. His wife had suggested that instead of writing bad poetry, he should focus on writing about the tribal areas, where they had spent more than a decade of their lives. The manuscript gathered dust for close to three decades until 2008 when it found its way to Penguin UK. The Wandering Falcon was published earlier this year in India and is due out in the United States next month. This week…
