Mohammed Hanif

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Mohammed Hanif (* 1965 in Okara , Pakistan ) is a Pakistani writer and journalist .

Mohammed Hanif in the Literary Salon, Stadtgarten, Cologne, January 11, 2018

life and work

Mohammed Hanif was a pilot in the Pakistani Air Force before embarking on a career as a journalist. In the 1990s he and his family moved to London .

There he directed the BBC's Urdu program , wrote articles for The Guardian and The New York Times . He completed the prestigious Creative Writing Program at the University of East Anglia . He also wrote plays and the screenplay for the film The Long Night ( Raat Chali Hai Jhoom Ke ).

His debut novel A Box of Exploding Mangos , a bitter satire about the mysterious plane crash in which the Pakistani military dictator Mohammed Zia ul-Haq , several of his generals and the US ambassador Arnold Lewis Raphel were killed on August 17, 1988 , was already shortly after Appearance nominated for the Booker Prize 2008.

In autumn 2008 Mohammed Hanif returned to Pakistan and works there as a correspondent for the BBC. He lives in Karachi .

Works

  • A Case of Exploding Mangoes . Jonathan Cape, London 2008 (German, A box of exploding mangoes , translated by Ursula Gräfe . A1 Verlag , Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-940666-06-2 ).
  • Our Lady of Alice Bhatti . Jonathan Cape, London 2011 (German, Alice Bhatti's Ascension , translated by Ursula Gräfe, A1 Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-940666-22-2 ).
  • Red Birds . Bloomsbury, London 2018 (German Red Birds , translated by Michael Schickenberg, Hoffmann & Campe 2019. ISBN 978-3-455-00516-5 ).

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. What's a former dictator to do when he retires?
  2. Pakistan's General Anarchy
  3. ^ Digital film tells of divided Pakistan
  4. Overview of the nominations of the MBP 2008