Mirza Waheed

MirzaWaheed was born and brought upin Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator,was an international bestseller, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhat Prize, and longlistedfor the Desmond Elliott Prize.It was also bookof the year for Telegraph, New Statesman,Financial Times, Business Standard andthe Telegraph (India), among others.Waheed has written for the BBC, Guardian,Granta, Guernica, Al Jazeera English andthe New York Times.Waheed lives in London.