H. M. Naqvi
| H.M. Naqvi | |
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| Born | Husain M. Naqvi July 1974 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Notable works | Home Boy |
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H.M. Naqvi (born 1973) is a novelist (currently based in Karachi) who is the author of Home Boy, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
H.M. Naqvi was born in London in 1973 and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. After graduating from Georgetown University (1996) with degrees in economics and English literature, he wrote short stories while subsisting on a "two-dollar budget". He also ran the only slam poetry venue in Washington D.C., the Fifteen Minutes Club. He represented Pakistan in the National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1995. His poems were broadcast on NPR and BBC.
In 1997 he joined the World Bank and spent the next eight years working in the financial services industry on the East Coast and in Karachi. When he quit in 2003, he left for Cambridge, Massachusetts where sat in classes at Harvard's English department, pretending to be a student, including James Wood's survey of postwar fiction and Elvis Mitchell's class on contemporary film.
Subsequently, he attended the creative writing program at Boston University where he worked with National Book Award recipient Ha Jin. While working on his novel, he taught writing at Boston University. He wrote till six in the morning and taught in the afternoons and evenings.
Naqvi moved to Karachi in 2007. He has since worked in his hometown on reportage and his next novel. In 2010, he was a resident participant in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
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