| Birth Place: | Pakistan |
| Nationality: | British |
| Employer: | University of Bristol |
| Thesis Title: | Aphorism in Stevie Smith |
| Thesis Url: | https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4e8101f5-1484-435d-86c4-df7bb65c926e |
| Thesis Year: | 2017 |
| Academic Advisors: | Sally Bayley & Laura Marcus[1] |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Notable Works: | A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) |
Noreen Masud is a British writer and literary scholar.
She was born to a British mother and a Pakistani father in Lahore, Pakistan, and as a teenager moved to Britain with her mother and siblings.[2]
Masud is a lecturer at the University of Bristol.[3] Her work has been published in The Times Literary Supplement[4] and Salon.[5] Her monograph Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language (2022) won The Modernist Studies Association's First Book Prize.[6]
She has been on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.[7]
Her memoir A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma (2023) describes her childhood in Pakistan, moving to Scotland aged 15, and the complex post-traumatic stress disorder from which she suffers.[8] [9] A Flat Place was shortlisted for the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award,[10] and was a Book of the Year in The New Yorker, The Guardian and theSunday Times.[11] In 2024, it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.[12]