Mohsin Hamid Biography

Full Name:  Mohsin Hamid

Wife/Spouse:  Zahra

Date of Birth: 23 July 1971 

Place of Birth: Lahore,Pakistan

Citizenship: Pakistan, British

Religion:  Islam

Education/University :Princeton University ,Harvard Law School,

Occupation:  Novelist

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Mohsin Hamid Biography:

• Mohsin Hamid  is a  novelist, writer and brand consultant.
• Mohsin spent  his childhood in the United States, where he stayed from the age of 3 to 9 and then moved to Lahore ,and again at age of 18,he returned to USA.
• He studied from famous writers , Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.  Mohsin  wrote his  first draft of  the first novel for a fiction workshop taught by Toni Morrison.
• In 2004 he joined the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, working only three days a week so as to retain time to write his novels .
• Hamid  also served as managing director of Wolff Olins’ London office, and in 2015 was appointed the firm’s first-ever Chief Storytelling Officer.

Mohsin Hamid Novels List:

• Moth Smoke 
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist 
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
• Exit West

Hamid has described himself as a “mongrel” and has said of his own writing that “a novel can often be a divided man’s conversation with himself.”

( Last Updated : 10 Feb 2019 )