Moni Mohsin

Moni Mohsin (born in Pakistan in 1963 ) is a Pakistani writer.

Life

Mohsin grew up in Lahore in a middle-class family that is oriented towards Western values ​​and has seen its lifestyle restricted since the coup in Zia ul-Haq in 1977. Mohsin went to boarding school in England in 1979 and then studied anthropology and archeology at Cambridge University .

She returned to Pakistan and founded the first nature magazine there. She writes for The Times , The Guardian , The Washington Post , Prospect , The Nation, and other newspapers. Her sister Jugnu Mohsin is the editor of the Pakistani weekly The Friday Times in which Mohsin for a time the feature pages supervised.

Since 1996 Mohsin has lived mainly in London with his husband and two children.

Works (selection)

• Lahore . Photos Fredrik Arvidsson. Hong Kong: Guidebook Co., 1995
• The End of Innocence . London: Penguin, 2007
• The Diary of a Social Butterfly . Random House India, 2008
• Tender hooks . London: Chatto & Windus, 2011
  • Duty free . London: Vintage, 2012
• The return of the butterfly . Gurgaon Penguin Books 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Moni Mohsin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Zahrah Mazhar: No fluttering about: Moni Mohsin may be a social butterfly but she stings like a bee , In: The Express Tribune , Karachi, February 8, 2014
• Moni Mohsin , List of Articles in The Guardian , accessed January 15, 2018
• Moni Mohsin , at Penguin