Biography of Mohammed Hanif

Biography of Mohammed Hanif

Mohammed Hanif (born in November 1964) is a British Pakistani essayist and writer who composes a month to month assessment piece in The New York Times. 

Hanif is the writer of the widely praised book A Case of Exploding Mangoes, which was for quite some time recorded for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and won the Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. His second book, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, won the Wellcome Book Prize. He additionally filled in as a journalist for the BBC News situated in Karachi and was the essayist for its acclaimed show and the component film, The Long Night. He work has been distributed by The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. His play The Dictator's Wife has been organized at the Hampstead Theater. 

Mohammed Hanif was conceived in Okara, Pakistan. Subsequent to leaving the Pakistan Air Force Academy to seek after a profession in news coverage, he worked for Newsline, India Today, and The Washington Post. He has composed plays for the stage and screen, including a widely praised BBC show and the component film The Long Night (2002), Pakistan's first advanced element film. Hanif is an alum of the University of East Anglia's exploratory writing program. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was distributed in 2008. It was longlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award and the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Best First Book classification. He was leader of the BBC's Urdu Service and lived in London however moved back to Pakistan in 2008. His second book Our Lady of Alice Bhatti won the Wellcome Book Prize. 

His first book A Case of Exploding Mangoes was distributed in 2008.It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, and won the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and a Commonwealth Writers' Regional Prize for Best First Book. 

Mohammed Hanif was living in London when his honor winning first novel was distributed. Presently back in Karachi, he talks about the dangers he's confronted and why he keeps on standing up 

They put GPS contributes pets and transient feathered creatures now. How might somebody flying around in a 65-million-dollar machine get lost?" With these words – talked by a US aviator who has quite recently slammed his stream in an anonymous desert – Mohammed Hanif overturns his own introduce in the opening pages of his new novel. It is a normally striking move from an ironical essayist who was himself once a pilot – "a downright awful one" – and whose work is brimming with references to military equipment. His Booker-longlisted make a big appearance A Case of Exploding Mangoes put a truck of the natural product nearby Pakistan's leader Zia ul-Haq on a destined C-130 Hercules; his second recounted an energetic community nurture offered on an atomic submarine. In any case, jokey however his fiction shows up, its political mission is Orwellian – his work is supported by a feeling of a degenerate world that is always beset. "I figure I probably been at secondary school when the Afghan war began, so we grew up with these sorts of contentions, and afterward they began to recreate themselves around the globe. These wars never end. The consideration just moves elsewhere," says the 53-year-old author, columnist and intermittent dramatist. 

Mohammed Hanif's tale A Case of Exploding Mangoes was longlisted for the Booker prize, shortlisted for the Guardian first book grant, Commonwealth scholarly prize and won Shakti Bhatt first book grants. His new novel Our Lady of Alice Bhatti is distributed by Jonathan Cape. He fills in as an exceptional journalist for BBC Urdu and is situated in Karachi