Mirza Waheed

Mirza Waheed
Born	Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir
Ethnicity	Kashmiri
Education	English Literature at Delhi University
Occupation	Journalist, Author and Novelist
Notable credit(s)	Author of The Collaborator & The Book of Golden Leaves
Religion	Islam

Mirza Waheed is a novelist and journalist based in London. Mirza has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Guernica, Al Jazeera English and The New York Times. His first novel, The Collaborator, was published in 2012. His second novel, The Book of Gold Leaves, was published in 2014.^[1]

Award and honours

• 2011 "Books of the Year" for The Collaborator in The Telegraph,^[2] New Statesman,^[3] Business Standard^[4] and Telegraph India.^[5]
• 2011 Guardian First Book Award finalist for The Collaborator^[6]
• 2011 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize finalist for The Collaborator^[7]
• 2012 Desmond Elliott Prize longlist for The Collaborator^[8]
• 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature shortlist for The Book of Gold Leaves^[9]

Books

• The Collaborator (2012), ISBN 9780141048581
• The Book of Gold Leaves (2014), ISBN 9780241968109

References

1. "The Book of Gold Leaves". Penguin UK. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
2. "Books of the Year 2011". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
3. "Books of the Year 2011: Hari Kunzru". New Statesman. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
4. "Nilanjana S Roy: The year in books - 2011 and 2012". Business Standard. 3 January 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
5. "Breaking the Silence". The Telegraph India. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
6. Ramaswamy, Chitra (1 November 2014). "The Book of Gold Leaves review – Mirza Waheed speaks up for Kashmir". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
7. "Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist announced". IBN Live. 28 November 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
8. "The Desmond Elliott Prize 2015". Desmond Elliot. 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
9. "DSC Prize 2016 Finalists". 26 November 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.