Biography of Mohsin Hamid

Biography of Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid ( conceived 23 July 1971) is a Pakistani author, essayist and brand advisor. His books are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and Exit West. 

Hamid spent piece of his adolescence in the United States, where he remained from the age of 3 to 9 while his dad, a college educator, was enlisted in a PhD program at Stanford University. He at that point moved with his family back to Lahore, Pakistan, and went to the Lahore American School 

His first novel was Moth Smoke (2000), victor of a Betty Trask Award and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Moth Smoke was made into a TV smaller than expected arrangement 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 distributed 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 dependent on the novel was likewise distributed in The Paris Review in 2006. 

His third novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), was a romantic tale and an investigation of mass-urbanization and worldwide monetary change — in the evident pretense of a self improvement guide. It was shortlisted for the DSC Prize and distributed to remarkable basic approval. In the expressions of Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times: "With How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his age's most innovative and skilled scholars. 

There are a not very many scholars who are licensed for reforming contemporary Pakistani Literature and have it perceived the world over. One such conspicuous figure is Mohsin Hamid. He is a Pakistani author known for his keenly made abstract works, for example, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia and Moth Smoke. 

Subsequently, he proceeded to go to Harvard Law School and graduated in 1997. With the end goal to pay his understudy credits, he started working for McKinsey and Company in New York as an administration specialist. Amid his time there, he took a couple of months excursion and finished his first novel. Therefore, he moved to London in 2001. At first he expected to remain there for a year however he kept on living there for an additional eight years while flying forward and backward to Pakistan occasionally. In the long run, he acquired a double citizenship of United Kingdom. As he got hitched and had a little girl his inclination for voyaging expanded. From that point forward, he has isolated his time between Lahore, London, New York, Greece and Italy. 

His composing has been highlighted on success records, adjusted for the film, and converted into more than thirty-five dialects. 

Conceived in Lahore, he has consumed about a large portion of his time on earth there and a great part of the rest in London, New York, and California.