A scholar, author, and short story writer, Nasir Abbas Nayyar is the former Director General, the Urdu Science Board, Lahore, and Professor of Urdu at University of the Punjab, Lahore. He is the editor of LUMS' research journal Bunyaad. His book Mabad Nauabadiyat: Urdu kay Tanzur men (OUP, 2013) ushered postcolonial studies into Urdu Literature. His book Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid (OUP, 2016) won the best Urdu Book Prize, KLF 2017, and the Baba-e-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq Award 2016 for Urdu prose from the Pakistan Academy of Letters. His book, Us Ko Ik Shakhs Samjhna to Munasib hi Nahi (OUP, 2017), was awarded the UBL Literary Prize 2019 (non-fiction) for the best Urdu book. His book Nazm Kaisay Parhain is the first of its kind in Urdu. Aik Zamana Khatam Howa Hae is his fourth collection of short stories. In Jadeediat aur Nauabadiyat (OUP, 2021), Dr Nayyar has unraveled the problematic relationship between modernity and colonialism. Naiy Naqqad kah Naam Khatoot is his recent publication. He regularly writes on the literary issues in The News and Dawn.