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}} Mohsin Hamid ((ウルドゥー語:محسن حامد); born 1971) is a Pakistani novelist and writer. His novels are ''Moth Smoke'' (2000), ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' (2007), and ''How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'' (2013). ==Biography== Hamid spent part of his childhood in the United States, where he stayed from the age of 3 to 9 while his father, a university professor, was enrolled in a PhD program at Stanford University. He then moved with his family back to Lahore, Pakistan and attended the Lahore American School.〔("Mohsin Hamid: A Muslim novelist's eye on U.S. and Europe" ) ''International Herald Tribune'' 12 October 2007〕 At the age of 18, Hamid returned to the United States to continue his education. He graduated from Princeton University ''summa cum laude'' in 1993, having studied under the writers Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. Hamid wrote the first draft of his first novel for a fiction workshop taught by Morrison. He returned to Pakistan after college to continue working on it.〔("Why I Write: Mohsin Hamid" ) ''The Guardian'' 6 June 2008〕 Hamid then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1997.〔("A Novel Idea" ) ''Harvard Law Bulletin'' Summer 2000〕 Finding corporate law boring, he repaid his student loans by working for several years as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York City. He was allowed to take three months off each year to write, and he used this time to complete his first novel ''Moth Smoke''.〔("Akhil and Mohsin Get Paid" ) ''The New York Observer'' 22 April 2001〕 He moved to London in the summer of 2001, initially intending to stay only one year. Although he frequently returned to Pakistan to write, he continued to live in London for eight years, becoming a dual citizen of the United Kingdom in 2006.〔("Mohsin Hamid on citizenship" ) ''The Independent'' 25 February 2007〕 He moved to Lahore in 2009 with his wife Zahra and their daughter Dina. He now divides his time between Pakistan and abroad, living between Lahore, New York, London, and Mediterranean countries including Italy and Greece. Hamid has described himself as a "mongrel"〔("The Pathos of Exile" ) ''TIME'' 18 August 2003〕 and has said of his own writing that "a novel can often be a divided man’s conversation with himself."〔("My Reluctant Fundamentalist" ) Powells Original Essays〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mohsin Hamid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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