Jamil Ahmad
“Looking back and reflecting on my life, I realize how accident prone I have been in these eighty years. Apart from three car accidents, however, all have been for the good. The single book I have written was because I was fortunate enough to fall into a career as a civil servant in Pakistan, which happened to harmonize with my deep emotional interest in the tribal system, an interest that germinated in my schooldays and grew stronger with the passage of years. I never set out to be a writer. It started with this interest, a feeling, and resulted in my first book—published thirty years after I’d written it—finding an audience. That this effort has not ended as ‘loves labor lost’ is the most recent, and perhaps the best, accident.”
—Jamil Ahmad, author of The Wandering Falcon (Riverhead Books, 2011)