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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|2011 novel by Mirza Waheed}}<br />
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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = The Collaborator<br />
| image = The Collaborator (Mirza Waheed novel).jpg<br />
| author = [[Mirza Waheed]]<br />
| language = English<br />
| genre = Fiction<br />
| published = 2011<br />
| publisher = [[Penguin Books]]<br />
| caption = First edition cover<br />
| media_type = Print<br />
| pages = 320<br />
}}<br />
{{Italic title}}'''''The Collaborator''''' is the 2011 [[debut novel]] by [[Mirza Waheed]]. The novel is set on the Indian side of the [[Line of Control]] that separates [[Indian Kashmir]] from [[Pakistani Kashmir]]. The first-person narrator is a young man who ends up working for the [[Indian Army]], counting the number of dead militants, killed in encounters, with the Indian army.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8345157/The-Collaborator-by-Mirza-Waheed-review.html | title=The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed: review | first=Sameer | last=Rahim | newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] | date=1 March 2011 | accessdate=29 December 2024}}</ref><ref>Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert ''Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora'' 1317654129 2014 "This essay argues that Mirza Waheed's 2011 novel, The Collaborator, is characterized by a ..."</ref><ref>Graham Huggan ''The Oxford Handbook of Postcolonial Studies'' 2013 Page 194 0191662410 "Activists and writers have challenged the way in which the Indian army has constructed these 'fake encounters' with enemy insurgents. In Mirza Waheed's novel The Collaborator (2011), for instance, the first-person narrator, a young man from ..."</ref><ref>Shubh Mathur ''The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conflict: Grief and Courage'' 1137546220 - 2016 "Mirza Waheed's novel The Collaborator, published in 2011, eerily prefigured these discoveries. The protagonist, a young boy living in a border village near the Line of Control, watches as his friends and schoolmates disappear across the line .."</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
The book ''The Collaborator'' was featured in 2011 "Books of the Year" in ''The Telegraph'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8896940/Books-of-the-Year-2011.html | title=Books of the Year 2011 | work=The Telegraph | date=18 November 2011 | accessdate=16 March 2015 }}</ref> ''New Statesman'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.newstatesman.com/2011/11/situationist-glorious-life | title=Books of the Year 2011: Hari Kunzru | work=New Statesman | date=17 November 2011 | accessdate=16 March 2015 }}</ref> ''Business Standard''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/nilanjana-s-roy-the-year-in-books-2011-and-2012-112010300007_1.html | title=Nilanjana S Roy: The year in books - 2011 and 2012 | work=Business Standard | date=3 January 2012 | accessdate=16 March 2015 }}</ref> and ''Telegraph India''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110225/jsp/opinion/story_13629776.jsp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100109/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110225/jsp/opinion/story_13629776.jsp | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 April 2015 | title=Breaking the Silence | work=The Telegraph India | date=28 November 2011 | accessdate=25 February 2011 }}</ref> It was also 2011 [[Guardian First Book Award]] finalist<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/01/the-book-of-gold-leaves-mirza-waheed-review-novel-kashmir-conflict/ | title=The Book of Gold Leaves review – Mirza Waheed speaks up for Kashmir | work=The Guardian | date=1 November 2014 | accessdate=16 March 2015 | author=Ramaswamy, Chitra}}</ref> and shortlisted for the 2011 [[Shakti Bhatt Prize|Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/shakti-bhatt-first-book-prize-shortlist-announced/182745-40-100.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927014459/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/shakti-bhatt-first-book-prize-shortlist-announced/182745-40-100.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=27 September 2011 | title=Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist announced | work=IBN Live | date=28 November 2011 | accessdate=16 March 2015 }}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Novels set in India]]<br />
[[Category:Kashmir conflict in fiction]]<br />
[[Category:2011 debut novels]]<br />
[[Category:2011 Indian novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian English-language novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian political novels]]<br />
[[Category:Indian mystery novels]]<br />
[[Category:Penguin Books India books]]<br />
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