Mohammed Hanif

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "For". Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Mohammed Hanif (born November 1964) is a British-Pakistani writer and journalist.[1] His work has been published by The New York Times,[2][3] The Daily Telegraph,[4] The New Yorker[5] and The Washington Post. Hanif worked as a correspondent for the BBC News based in Karachi and was the writer of a feature film about the city, The Long Night.[6][7][8] Hanif has written two novels, A Case of Exploding Mangoes.[9] and Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, as well as a play, The Dictator's Wife, which was staged at the Hampstead Theatre.[10]

Life

He was born in Okara, Punjab. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism.[11] He initially worked for Newsline and wrote for The Washington Post and India Today. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia.[12] In 1996, he moved to London to work for the BBC. Later, he became the head of the BBC's Urdu service in London.[12] He moved back to Pakistan in 2008.[13]

Works

His first novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) was shortlisted for the 2008 Guardian First Book Award[14] and longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.[15] It won the 2009 Commonwealth Book Prize in the Best First Book category[16] and the 2008 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize.[17]

Hanif has also written for the stage and screen, including a feature film, The Long Night (2002),[8] a BBC radio play, What Now, Now That We Are Dead?, and the stage play The Dictator's Wife (2008).[18] His second novel, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, was published in 2011.[19] It was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize (2012),[20] and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2013).[21]

He is currently collaborating with composer Mohammed Fairouz on an opera titled Bhutto.[22]

In 2018, he wrote a novel called Red Birds.

Hanif's style has often been compared with that of the author Salman Rushdie, although Hanif himself disagrees with this assessment. Once, to a question if he had grown up wanting to be a writer like Salman Rushdie, he said that while "[e]verybody of a certain age wanted to write like Rushdie and so did I", he would not want being "hunted around the world."[23]

Award Return

In opposition to Pakistan's ongoing persecution of the Baloch people and police crackdown during a protest march in Islamabad on December 20, 2023, Mohammed Hanif has returned his "Sitara-e-Imtiaz" award.[24]

Bibliography

Films

  • The Long Night (Script) (2002)

Novels

Plays

  • What Now, Now That We Are Dead? (radio play)
  • The Dictator's Wife (2008)

Personal life

Hanif is married to the actress Nimra Bucha.[25]

References

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  17. ↑ "The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize 2008 – The Winner", Remembering Shakti Bhatt webpage, 27 January 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  18. ↑ "Recent Wave Activity: The Dictator's Wife". Template:Webarchive, The Wave Theatre Website. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  19. ↑ Yassin-Kassab, Robin (7 October 2007), "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif – review". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
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  23. ↑ Masih, Archana (18 January 2012), "The Mohammed Hanif interview", rediff.com. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
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