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Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid grew up in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied at Princeton under Toni Morrison and Harvard Law, and currently lives in New York City.

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Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

‘Everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138 padlock

Mohsin Hamid | Is Travel Writing Dead?

Mohsin Hamid

‘I have come to believe that we are all migrants, that the experience of migration unites all human beings.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 138
Essays & Memoir | Issue 138

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Fiction | Issue 122 padlock
Fiction | Issue 122 padlock

Don’t Fall in Love

Mohsin Hamid

‘She does not stare at you, but when your eyes meet, she does not look away.’

In Conversation | Issue 122
In Conversation | Issue 122

Mohsin Hamid | Podcast

Mohsin Hamid & John Freeman

The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid, talks to John Freeman on The Granta Podcast.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 122
Essays & Memoir | Issue 122

How to Write About Pakistan

Various Contributors

‘Fundamentalist mangoes must have more texture; secular mangoes should have artificial flavouring.’

Fiction | Issue 112
Fiction | Issue 112

A Beheading

Mohsin Hamid

‘The words are just dribbling out of my mouth. I can’t stop them. They’re like tears.’

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