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A searchable archive of every ULA winner from 2009 to the present. Filter by year, category, or language.

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Winner Spotlight — 2024
[Sample] Farida Haideri
2024 Winner
Urdu Fiction

[Sample] Farida Haideri

Aag Ka Darya — Revisited

[Sample placeholder biography] A novelist and essayist based in Lahore, Farida Haideri has been writing for over two decades. Her work explores the terrain of female interiority in contemporary Pakistan, drawing on the classical Urdu tradition while arriving at an utterly modern sensibility. Aag Ka Darya — Revisited is her fourth novel.

"A landmark work of psychological depth, mapping the landscape of a woman's inner life against the turbulence of modern Pakistan. Haideri has written her finest book."

— Jury Citation, 11th ULA Awards, 2024
Read Interview → View All 2024 Winners

All winners 2009–2024

[Sample] Farida Haideri 2024
Urdu Fiction

[Sample] Farida Haideri

Aag Ka Darya — Revisited

"A landmark work of psychological depth…" — Jury

[Sample] Tariq Masood 2024
English Literature

[Sample] Tariq Masood

The Weight of Mangoes

"A masterwork of diaspora literature — tender, precise…" — Jury

[Sample] Sana Nizami 2024
Drama Script

[Sample] Sana Nizami

Khwab ki Haveli

"Immense structural intelligence…classical tradition…" — Jury

[Sample] Arif Karimi 2022
Songwriting

[Sample] Arif Karimi

Mitti ki Khushboo

"Lyrics of rare economy recovering the classical tradition…" — Jury

[Sample] Zulaikha Qureshi 2022
Lifetime Achievement

[Sample] Zulaikha Qureshi

Five decades of Urdu poetry

"Shaped the Urdu literary imagination for half a century…" — Jury

[Sample] Rashid Pitafi 2022
Pakistani Languages

[Sample] Rashid Pitafi

Soon Sakhi (Sindhi)

"Restores the dignity of Sindhi fiction on the national stage…" — Jury

[Sample] Nadia Ahmed 2021
English Literature

[Sample] Nadia Ahmed

The City and the Lake

"A debut of remarkable moral precision…" — Jury

[Sample] Hassan Baloch 2019
Drama Script

[Sample] Hassan Baloch

Charaagh Aur Andhra

"A play of devastating simplicity and enormous emotional range…" — Jury

[Sample] Maria Jalees — gallery artwork 2022
Visual Arts

[Sample] Maria Jalees

Series: Borders / Thresholds

"A body of work of painterly intelligence and political urgency…" — Jury