About

Born on September 7, 1957 in Khairpur Miris, spent his childhood in Larkana and has been presently residing at Hyderabad, Sindh. His real name is Muhammad Khan Sheikh but when he started writing fiction in 1970s he adopted Zaib Sindhi as his pen name. He did his masters in Sindhi Literature in 1981 from the University of Sindh, Jamshoro. He worked as Producer in Radio Pakistan for some time and then started to work as an educationist and is a retired professor from the Education Department, Government of Sindh after teaching from August 1989 to September 6, 2017. Zaib Sindhi is a short story writer, novelist, Poet, translator, TV playwright, Columnist & Broadcaster. His stories and their translations are published in the prestigious journals. He knows Sindhi language, Urdu and English languages. Zaib Sindhi is author of 22. Some of them are: Sindhi stories:“𝘎𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘒𝘩𝘸𝘢𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘯”(Assassin Wishes) (1977),“𝘡𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘨𝘪 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘑𝘪 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘯” (Life in the Hands of Pain) (1981),“𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮 𝘎𝘶𝘮 𝘛𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘢𝘳” (Lost Scenes of Dune Dhandam) (2001) and“𝘏𝘺𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘥 47 𝘬𝘮”(2010), “𝘈𝘬𝘩𝘳𝘪 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘩𝘰” (The Last Man), 2018 “Raat, Reel Aur Rinpat” (Night, Rail and Desert), 2023. Four editions of the Urdu translation of his only Sindhi novel“𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘢 𝘡𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣” (2012) have been published from Pakistna and one edition from India. This novel has also been translated to many other languages including Arabic. His short stories have also been translated in more than ten languages of the world: English, Hindi, Bengali etc. He has also translated a good number of books of foreign writers. He has been awarded a lot of awards including National Literary award from Pakistan Academy of letters, Pakistan Institute of Sindhiology from Sindh University, and Sindh Language Authority.