About the author
Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize, and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It was also the Book of the Year for Telegraph, New Statesman, Financial Times, Business Standard and the Telegraph (India), among others. His latest novel, The Book of Gold Leaves, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, and longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize and the 2016 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Waheed has written for the BBC, the Guardian, Granta, Guernica, Al Jazeera English and the New York Times. He lives in London.
