Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid wins South Bank Show Award

2007 shortlisted author wins Literature Award

30 January 2008

Mohsin Hamid has been awarded the South Bank Show literature award for his 2007 Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

The South Bank Show awards honour achievement in the arts and were hosted by the show’s presenter, Melvyn Bragg, at London’s Dorchester Hotel.

Mohsin Hamid was born in 1971 in Pakistan, where he grew up. He studied at Princeton and Harvard Law School, worked as a management consultant in New York and now lives in London. The Reluctant Fundamentalist traces the life and love of Changez, an idealistic young Muslim man who leaves Pakistan to pursue his education in the US.

As well as awards for shows and performers across the arts spectrum, two other authors were awarded by the South Bank Show awards. J.K. Rowling received a lifetime achievement award for her Harry Potter books and Daljit Nagra’s much-praised poetry debut Look We Have Coming to Dover! took an Arts Council decibel award.

To read an interview with Mohsin Hamid shortly after he was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007 please visit our Perspective section.

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