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Mohsin Hamid
British Pakistani writer
Mohsin Hamid (Urdu: محسن حامد; born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), Exit West (2017), and The Last White Man (2022).
Early life and education
Born to a family of Punjabi and Kashmiri descent,[2] Hamid spent part of his childhood in the United States, where he stayed from the age of 3 to 9 while his father, a university professor, was enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford University. He then moved with his family back to Lahore, Pakistan, and attended the Lahore American School.[3]
At the age of 18, Hamid returned to the United States to continue his education. He graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs[4] at Princeton University in 1993 after completing a 127-page senior thesis, titled "Sustainable Power: Integrated Resource Planning in Pakistan", under the superv
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After reading Mothsmoke over a decade ago I was overjoyed, here was an emerging writer who didn’t need to sugar-coat the lives of Pakistanis with exoticism. Instead he was boldly writing about a middle class heroin addict and had a refreshing style (with character of the judge), making the reader part of the story. Mohsin Hamid was the first writer I interviewed to be featured on The Asian Writer. With his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Hamid made the shortlist of the Man Booker Prize which propelled him to bestseller-dom. Now six years later, and on the publication of his third novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Hamid talks to The Asian Writer about his writing career, self help, and that infamous piece that lambasted him as a publicity seeking monster.
Hamid currently lives in Lahore and is writing full time. I remind him that he once said that he had a second job so he could eat (and in saying so, made a point about the struggling artist). So is the art finally paying its way? “I’m currently making a living from my writing, yes,” he
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About Mohsin Hamid, Author of Exit West
Mohsin Hamid was born in 1971 in Lahore. He grew up mostly in Pakistan, but spent part of his childhood in California and returned to America to attend Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He then worked in New York and London as a management consultant before returning to Lahore to pursue writing full time.
His first novel, Moth Smoke, told the story of an ex-banker and heroin addict in contemporary Lahore. It was published in 14 languages and became a cult hit in Pakistan, where it was made into a telefilm. It was also the winner of a Betty Trask Award and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
His second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, recounted a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York. Published in over 30 languages, it became a million-copy international bestseller. It won the Ambassador Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Asian American Literary Award and the South Bank Show Award for Literature, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Guardian named it one of the book
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