Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which won 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 debut novel, Moth Smoke was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Originally published by Granta, it was reissued by Hamish Hamilton in 2011.
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. His essays and journalism have appeared in Time, the New York Times and the Guardian, among others.
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