11 Facts About Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant.

Mohsin Hamid's novels are Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Exit West, and The Last White Man.

Mohsin Hamid then moved with his family back to Lahore, Pakistan, and attended the Lahore American School.

At the age of 18, Mohsin Hamid returned to the United States to continue his education.

Mohsin Hamid wrote the first draft of his first novel for a fiction workshop taught by Morrison.

Mohsin Hamid returned to Pakistan after college to continue working on it.

Mohsin Hamid was allowed to take three months off each year to write, and he used this time to complete his first novel Moth Smoke.

Mohsin Hamid moved to London in the summer of 2001, initially intending to stay only one year.

Mohsin Hamid later served as managing director of Wolff Olins' London office, and in 2015 was appointed the firm's first-ever Chief Storytelling Officer.

Mohsin Hamid has written on politics, art, literature, travel, and other topics, most recently on Pakistan's internal division and extremism in an op-ed for the New York Times.

Mohsin Hamid has described himself as a "mongrel" and has said of his writing that "a novel can often be a divided man's conversation with himself".