Mehdi Khawaja

Mehdi Khawaja is a writer, translator, and literary agent from Kashmir. He is the winner of the 2025 Armory Square Prize for Translation and PEN Presents x SALT, awarded by the English PEN. His translation of the Kashmiri novel To Each Their Own Hell by Akhtar Mohiuddin will be out in the US from Open Letter Books and Penguin Random House India in 2027.