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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.

Awards: LA Times (2017) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Moth Smoke (2000)
   The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
   How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013)
   Exit West (2017)
   The Last White Man (2022)

Non fiction show

Awards

2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Exit West

Award nominations

	2019 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Exit West
	2018 The Writers' Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Exit West
	2018 ALA Notable Books for Adults (nominee) : Exit West
	2017 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Exit West
	2017 Kirkus Prize for Fiction (finalist) : Exit West
	2017 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Exit West
	2017 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Exit West
	2009 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	2007 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Reluctant Fundamentalist
	2001 PEN/Hemingway Award (nominee) : Moth Smoke
	2001 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid recommends

No One Prayed Over Their Graves (2023)
Khaled Khalifa
"A soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer."

The Every (2021)
(Circle , book 2)
Dave Eggers
"Hilarious and horrifying and idealistic. An unusual combination in a novel, or in anything else, really, but here the necessary result of a powerful writer taking on much of what matters most to our future."

Are You Enjoying? (2021)
Mira Sethi
"Fresh, intelligent, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan."