Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is the author of Moth Smoke (Granta, 2000) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, published by Hamish Hamilton in 2007.
Moth Smoke was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won awards for the South Bank Show Award for Literature 2008, the Ambassador Book Award 2008 and the Asian American Literary Award 2008. It was also shortlisted for several awards, including the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007, the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2008 and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009. His essays and journalism have appeared in Time, the New York Times and the Guardian, among others.
Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School and worked for several years as a management consultant in New York. He currently lives, works and writes in London.
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