Mirza Waheed
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Mirza Waheed is a British-Kashmiri novelist who was born and raised in Srinagar but now lives in London.[1]
Writing career
Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Guernica (magazine), Al Jazeera English and The New York Times.[1]
His first novel,
Waheed's second novel,
His third novel, Tell Her Everything, was released in January 2019.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7]
He plays cricket for the Authors XI team, which is composed of British writers.[8]
Awards and honours
- 2011 "Books of the Year" for The Collaborator in The Telegraph,[9] New Statesman,[10] Business Standard[11] and Telegraph India.[12]
- 2011 Guardian First Book Award finalist for The Collaborator[13]
- 2011 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize finalist for The Collaborator[14]
- 2012 Desmond Elliott Prize longlist for The Collaborator[15]
- 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature shortlist for The Book of Gold Leaves[16]
- 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize for Tell Her Everything [17]
Books
- The Collaborator (2012), ISBN 9780141048581
- The Book of Gold Leaves (2014), ISBN 9780241968109
- Tell Her Everything (2019), ISBN 9789387578890
References
- ^ a b "Mirza Waheed". Granta. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ Shamsie, Kamila (4 March 2011). "The Collaborator by Mirza Waheed – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ "The Book of Gold Leaves". Penguin UK. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- ^ Albinia, Alice (24 October 2014). "'The Book of Gold Leaves' by Mirza Waheed". The Financial Times. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ Rose, Jaya. 2019 books to watch out for. https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/books-and-art/060119/2019-books-to-watch-out-for.html Archived 23 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Deccan Chronicle . Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ Ghoshal, Somak (17 March 2019). "Book Review: 'Tell Her Everything' by Mirza Waheed". Livemint. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ Bhura, Sneha (6 April 2019). "Mirza Waheed on exploring intense father-daughter relationship in third book". The Week. Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4088-4045-0.
- ^ "Books of the Year 2011". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "Books of the Year 2011: Hari Kunzru". New Statesman. 17 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "Nilanjana S Roy: The year in books - 2011 and 2012". Business Standard. 3 January 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "Breaking the Silence". The Telegraph India. 28 November 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
- ^ Ramaswamy, Chitra (1 November 2014). "The Book of Gold Leaves review – Mirza Waheed speaks up for Kashmir". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist announced". IBN Live. 28 November 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015". Desmond Elliot. 2011. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ "DSC Prize 2016 Finalists". 26 November 2015. Archived from the original on 30 November 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- from the original on 24 August 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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