Barack Obama, the 44th and first black president of the United States, is known for his passion for reading.
Book lover Barack Obama mentions his favorite books regularly, which shows that he likes to read books by Pakistani authors.
In the past, Obama released a list of his favorite books on his Facebook page, which also included a novel by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.
Obama's favorite novel is Exit West, whose story revolves around a refugee couple. Mohsin Hamid's novel was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Exit West is Mohsin Hamid's fourth novel, followed by Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. Asia) has garnered acclaim from international critics and readers.
His novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist has also been made into a Hollywood film.
Mohsin Hamid is currently the most popular name in the South Asian literary scene. He was born in 1971 in Lahore. He spent his childhood in the United States, where his father was a professor at an American university. He returned to Lahore for a few years, received his basic education here, and then went to the United States and then to the United Kingdom for further studies.
In the United States, he had the opportunity to study with teachers who are big names in the world of novel writing, Joyce Carroll Oates and Tony Marsin.
Mohsin Hamid's first novel, Mouth Smoke, was published in 2000. Mohsin Hamid quickly began to emerge on the horizon of world-class English literature. They also work and live in Pakistan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
He is living a happy life with his wife Zahra and daughter Dina. Mohsin Hamid has been nominated twice for the prestigious British literary award 'Booker Prize'. As a Pakistani writer, only he has the honor of being nominated twice. Is. In 2018, the government of Pakistan also gave him a star of distinction.
