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Author photo. Mohsin Hamid, Lahore, 2004. Photo Credit: Ed Kashi.

Mohsin Hamid, Lahore, 2004. Photo Credit: Ed Kashi.

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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 first novel, Moth Smoke, was published in ten languages, won a Betty Trask Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His essays and journalism have appeared in Time, the New York Times and the Guardian, among others. His latest novel is The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) published by Penguin. He will be featured at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival 2015 program. He is the author of Exit West, which in 2018, won the inaugural Aspen Words Literary Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Reluctant Fundamentalist… (more)
Pereira Maintains (Introduction, some editions) 2,114 copies, 76 reviews
Granta 112: Pakistan (Contributor) 167 copies, 1 review
The Guardian Review Book of Short Stories (Author) 49 copies, 1 review

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