Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid (born 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer. He lives in London.

Hamid has studied at the universities of Harvard and Princeton in the USA economics. Thereafter, he worked in New York as a consultant and in Lahore as a freelance journalist.

Works

  • Moth Smoke. 2000 ISBN 0-374-21354-2 Night butterflies. From the English by Thomas Mohr. DTV, Munich 2002 ISBN 3832162437
  • The fundamentalist who wanted to be one. From the English by Eike Schönfeld. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2007 ISBN 3453405722
  • So you'll filthy rich in the booming Asia. From the English by Eike Schönfeld. DuMont, Cologne 2013 ISBN 383219715X

Prizes and awards

  • Betty Trask Award in 2001 for Moth smoke
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 2001 in literature WorldCat Integrated Authority File
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