Festival Appearances - The LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend - Friday 27 February – Sunday 1 March 2009. Biography Mohsin Hamid was born in 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to the US at the age of 18 to study at Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He then worked as a management consultant in New York, and later as a freelance journalist back in Lahore. His first novel was Moth Smoke (2000), winner of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Moth Smoke was made into a television mini-series in Pakistan and an operetta in Italy, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000. In 2007 his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was published and shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In 2008, it won the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the 2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) and the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). A short story based on the novel was also published in The Paris Review in 2006. Mohsin Hamid now lives in London. |
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Bibliography
Moth Smoke Granta, 2000
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Hamish Hamilton, 2007
Prizes and awards
2000 New York Times Notable Book of the Year Moth Smoke
2001 Betty Trask Award Moth Smoke
2001 PEN/Hemingway Award (shortlist) Moth Smoke
2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2007 New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Arts Council England Decibel Award (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Asian American Literary Award The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia Region, Best Book) (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award (US) (fiction) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Index on Censorship T R Fyvel Award (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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