Renowned for his four collections of lyrical short stories – most recently Insomnia – Aamer Hussein has also published two critically acclaimed novels: The Cloud Messenger (2011) and Another Gulmohar Tree (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize 2010). Aamer is Professor of Creative Writing at Southampton University, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English (University of London) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004.
