Shazaf Fatima won the Peek a Book Children Festival's prize at the Indian Literature Festival.
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 28th March, 2019) Pakistani novelist Shazaf Fatima Haider has won Children’s Choice Award at the Indian Literature Festival.
The novelist won the Peek a Book Children Festival's prize in India.
The jurors to grant the award were teenagers between 13-15 years of age.
Sharing the comments of the little jurists, Shazaf said that they made her day. The author was thrilled that the children liked the story of her novel.
“So Firefly has won the Peek a Book Children Festival’s prize. The jurors are 13, 14 and 15 years old and that just makes my day. Very thrilled that children and pre-adults are liking Sharmeen and Jugnu and the stories of the Jinn,” she wrote.
The novel 'A Firefly in the Dark' was published in 2018 that features the life of a young girl with the twists of supernatural elements as the tales narrated by her grandmother mingle into reality.
The girl's father encounters an accident while her mother battles depression, due to which she lives with her grandmother.
Shazaf’s first novel ‘How It Happened’ was released in December 2012 by Penguin, India while her second novel ‘A Firefly in the Dark’ was published in 2018 by Speaking Tiger Books again in India.
The story is also going to be filmed as a tv series by Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio.
