Mohsin Hamid is the author of five novels -- Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Exit West, and The Last White Man -- as well as a collection of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. His books have been translated into over forty languages, featured on bestseller lists, adapted for film, given numerous awards, and twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
He studied international relations at Princeton and law at Harvard, worked as a management consultant before pursuing writing full-time, and helped set up the Lahore Literary Festival, Lahore Biennale, and LUMS Young Writers Workshop. He has spent about half his life in Lahore, where he was born, and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.
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