Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels,
Moth Smoke
,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
,
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
, and
Exit West
, and a book of essays,
Discontent and Its Civilizations
.
His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages.
Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California.