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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.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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Awards
Betty Trask Award Best First Novel nominee (2001) : Moth Smoke
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2007) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2009) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2017) : Exit West
British Science Fiction Association Best Book nominee (2017) : Exit West
Rathbone Folio Prize Best Book nominee (2018) : Exit West
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book nominee (2019) : Exit West


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