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Earlier this month, Peanut Butter and Blueberries, the sell-out debut play from poet and playwright Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan opened at the Kiln Theatre. The Asian Writer picked up the phone for an exclusive chat with its writer to find out more about the experience of writing for stage, writing for Muslim audiences, and how theatre can …
Congratulations on the publication of your debut novel, Northern Boy. Tell me more about where the journey began for this story? What inspired you to tell it? Northern Boy has, literally, been years in the making. I first had the idea for it a decade ago, when I began jotting down various incidents from my childhood. I’d …