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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

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The life story of Najaf Mazari, a Hazara shepherd's son who learned rug-making in Mazar-i Sharif and became an author in Australia, written with Robert Hillman in 2008.

Najaf Mazari was born into a Hazara family and worked as a shepherd before moving to Mazar-i Sharif at twelve to learn rug-making. In 2008, with the author Robert Hillman, he wrote this account of his life.1

The two later worked together on The Honey Thief (2011), a collection of short stories about the Hazara people.1

See Books by Hazara authors.

Footnotes

  1. Wikipedia, Najaf Mazari. See also the Open Library record. ↩ ↩2