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This article is about a freelance journalist. For the Indian actress, see Huma Qureshi.

Huma Qureshi is a British author and former Guardian and Observer journalist.

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Career

Qureshi's coming-of-age memoir How We Met: A Memoir Of Love and Other Misadventures was published to favourable reviews in 2021, by Elliott & Thompson.^[1]

Qureshi's short story collection Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love was also published to critical acclaim in 2021, by Sceptre after a four-way auction.

It was chosen as The Guardian's Book of The Day,^[2] described by The Sunday Times as "An impressive debut" and the i newspaper as "a luscious debut".^[3]

Qureshi's first book, In Spite of Oceans, received The John C Laurence Award.

In 2020, Huma won the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize.^[4]

Early life and education

Qureshi was born in the UK to Pakistani parents and brought up in the West Midlands. Sh