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Mirza Waheed is a novelist who was born and raised in Srinagar but now lives in London.
, Writing career
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...The Guardian
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, Granta
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, Guernica (magazine)
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, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times
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.
His first novel, '' The Collaborator'', was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book award. It takes place in his homeland of Kashmir, torn in conflict between India and Pakistan. Novelist Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel '' Home Fire'' (2017). Named on ''Granta'' magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has be ...
reviewed it for ''The Guardian'' and called it "gripping in its narrative drama...Waheed gives us a portrait of Kashmir itself. Away from the rhetorical posturing of India and Pakistan, he reveals, with great sensitivity and an anger that arises from compassion, what it is to live in a part of the world that is regarded by the national government as the enemy within, and by the government next door as a strategic puppet."
Waheed's second novel, ''The Book of Gold Leaves'', was published in 2014. A love story between a Sunni and a Shi'ite
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...
in troubled 1990s Kashmir, it was reviewed by Alice Albinia in the ''Financial Times'': "A haunting illustration of how, at the end of last century, normal life became impossible for many of those who call Kashmir home."
His third novel, '' Tell Her Everything'', was released in January 2019. It is the story of a father who is preparing to reveal his own unsavory past to the now-grown daughter that he sent away to boarding school as a small child.
Personal life
Waheed and his wife have a son and a daughter and he has said that he limits his book-promotion travels in order to stay home in London and care for them. He worked for the BBC for ten years, but quit in 2011 to devote himself full-time to writing and raising his children. He playscricket
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for the Authors XI team, which is composed of British writers.
Awards and honours
*2011 "Books of the Year" for ''The Collaborator'' in ''The Telegraph'', ''New Statesman'', ''Business Standard'' and ''Telegraph India''. *2011Guardian First Book Award
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finalist for ''The Collaborator''
*2011 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize finalist for ''The Collaborator''
*2012 Desmond Elliott Prize
The Desmond Elliott Prize is an annual award for the best debut novel written in English and published in the UK. The winning novel can be from any genre of fiction and must exhibit depth and breadth with a compelling narrative. The winner receiv ...
longlist for ''The Collaborator''
*2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an international literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South AsiaNote: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka ...
shortlist for ''The Book of Gold Leaves''
*2019 The Hindu Literary Prize
''The Hindu'' Literary Prize or ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper ''The Hindu''. It recognizes Indian works in English and ...
for ''Tell Her Everything ''
Books
* ''The Collaborator'' (2012), * ''The Book of Gold Leaves'' (2014), * ''Tell Her Everything'' (2019),References
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