how to get filthy rich in rising asia by mohsin hamid

He later served as managing director of Wolff Olins' London office, and in 2015 was appointed the firm's first-ever Chief Storytelling Officer. In 2004 he joined the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, working only three days a week so as to retain time to write. 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. Hamid moved to London in the summer of 2001, initially intending to stay only one year.

He was allowed to take three months off each year to write, and he used this time to complete his first novel Moth Smoke. 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. Hamid then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1997. He returned to Pakistan after college to continue working on it. Hamid wrote the first draft of his first novel for a fiction workshop taught by Morrison. While he was a student at Princeton, Hamid studied under Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1993 after completing an 127-page-long senior thesis, titled 'Sustainable Power: Integrated Resource Planning in Pakistan', under the supervision of Robert H. He graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. Īt the age of 18, Hamid returned to the United States to continue his education. He then moved with his family back to Lahore, Pakistan, and attended the Lahore American School. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), Exit West (2017), and The Last White Man (2022).īorn to family of Punjabi and Kashmiri descent, 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. Mohsin Hamid ( Urdu: محسن حامد born 23 July 1971) is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. From the BBC programme Front Row, 24 April 2013

How to get filthy rich in rising asia by mohsin hamid