Fatima bhutto benazir biography
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Fatima Bhutto
Pakistani writer (born 1982)
Fatima Bhutto (Urdu: فاطمہ بھُٹّو; Sindhi: فاطمه ڀٽو, born 29 May 1982) is a Pakistani writer and columnist. Born in Kabul, she is the daughter of politician Murtaza Bhutto, sister of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr, niece of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and granddaughter of former Prime Minister and President of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.[1] She was raised in Syria and Karachi, and received her bachelor's degree from Barnard College, followed by a master's degree from the SOAS University of London.[2]
Bhutto is a critic of her aunt Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of involvement in her father's murder.[3][4] Her non-fiction book, Songs of Blood and Sword (2010), is about her family.[5] Bhutto has written for The News and The Guardian among other publications.[6][7]
Early life and education
[edit]Bhutto was born on 29 May 1982 to Murtaza Bhutto and his Afghan wife, Fauzia Fasihudin Bhutto, the daughter of Afghanistan's former foreign affairs official in Kabul.[1] Her father was in exile during the military regime of general Zia-ul-Haq. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and her f
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The Politics of Storytelling — with Fatima Bhutto
Writers who are fighting the world around them are always going to be more interesting than the kind of solipsistic writer that’s just thinking about themselves, and their own life, and the four walls around them. And those are always the stories that I’m interested in as a reader.
Despite being a member of Pakistan’s most prominent political dynasty, Fatima Bhutto never wanted to be a politician like her aunt Benazir Bhutto, she tells New Lines’ Faisal Al Yafai. Rather, since childhood, she was determined to be a writer — an ambition that was nurtured by her late father, the left-wing parliamentarian Mir Murtaza Bhutto.
As a writer, though, she never left politics behind. Her work — both her fiction and her nonfiction — is very openly political, exploring subjects like radicalization, globalization and democracy. And yet, without rejecting it, she is critical of the label “political fiction”: You may have a larger political idea, but in order for fiction to be truly felt, it has to be about the life of the heart.
But all the best stories have a political edge, she says — and ultimately, all storytelling is in some way political. Case in point: the new pop-cultural movements emerging from outside the West, which she explo