Pakistani supercop-turned-author Omar Shahid Hamid and Icelandic writer Eva Björg Ægisdóttir explore how local realities shape the global language of thrillers at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair
Sharjah, November 11, 2025
What connects the quiet Nordic town of Akranes to the bustling streets of Karachi? At the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF 2025), two acclaimed crime authors offered the answer: ‘culture’.

During a Thrillerfest session, Omar Shahid Hamid, Pakistan’s counter-terrorism officer-turned-novelist, and Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Iceland’s award-winning crime writer, discussed how real-life experience, psychology, and place shape the universal language of crime fiction.
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