Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes , was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel. His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti , was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He has written the libretto for a new opera...See more
Mohammed Hanif was born in Okara, Pakistan. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy as Pilot Officer but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism. His first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes , was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel. His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti , was shortlisted for the 2012 Wellcome Prize. He has written the libretto for a new opera Bhutto . He writes regularly for the New York Times , BBC Urdu, and BBC Punjabi. He currently splits his time between Berlin and Karachi. See less
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Mohammed Hanif book reviews
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes
do not miss this one!
by nancyo, Sep 18, 2008
Before I read this book, I'd never even heard of Zia ul-Haq, the president of Pakistan who was killed in the crash of a C-130 airplane, along with the American ambassador Arnold Raphel and others. ... Read More