Bilal Hasan Minto is a lawyer, filmmaker, and writer. He is the author of a book of Urdu fiction, Model Town (Sanjh, 2015). One of the stories from the collection, “Keera” (“Parasite”), translated by Bilal Tanweer, won the 2021 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation. Minto has written and directed three films. He is also the author of the play Glad Tidings (2007), commissioned by Paines Plough, London, as part of its “International Later” program.