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Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan (b.1971)

Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations.

His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into more than thirty languages.

He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.

Novels

Moth Smoke (1998)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
Exit West (2017)

Non fiction

Shahzia Sikander (2005)
Discontent and Its Civilizations (2014)

Awards

	Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2001) : Moth Smoke
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2007) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2009) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	British Science Fiction Association Best Book nominee (2017) : Exit West
	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Exit West

Mohsin Hamid recommends

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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009)
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"A stunning achievement....Such is its narrative power that I couldn't stop turning the page."

The Wandering Falcon (2011)
Jamil Ahmad
"Superb. The work of a gifted storyteller..."

Happiness, Like Water (2012)
Chinelo Okparanta
"Without bluster, Chinelo Okparanta writes stories that are brave and devasting."

How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2013)
Tabish Khair
"Smart, funny, and wonderfully irreverent."

Parang (2013)
Omar Musa
"I savored this, Omar Musa is a special writer with his own beat, cutting through worlds."

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