莫欣·哈米德（1971— ），出生于巴基斯坦第二大城市拉合尔，后进入美国普林斯顿大学主修公共与国际事务，毕业后入哈佛大学法学院深造，一九九七年获得法律博士学位。之后在纽约曼哈顿的财务管理公司担任管理顾问。现居伦敦。

二○○○年出版处女作《蛾烟》（Moth Smoke），获得贝蒂·特拉斯克奖并入围美国笔会海明威文学奖，被《纽约时报》选为年度好书。二○○七年出版《拉合尔茶馆的陌生人》，入围布克奖最终决选。

"If a book had to be praised for its merits in defining the anxieties of our post-9/11 society, then Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist would be the one to win" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"I read Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist with increasing admiration. It is beautifully written - what a joy it is to find such intelligent prose, such clarity of thought and exposition - and superbly constructed. The author has managed to tighten the screw of suspense almost without our being aware it is happening, and the result is a tale of enormous tension. I read a lot of thrillers - or rather I start reading a lot of thrillers, and put most of them down - but this is more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time, as well as being a subtle and elegant analysis of the state of our world today. I was enormously impressed" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"An elegant, artful, haunting novella - a deceptively simple narrative that is in fact deeply ambiguous" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"From the start, I was gripped...There's an almost delightful allegorical symmetry to the flow of events, as well as a sensuousness and finish that might belong to some other form of art: music, perhaps...Hamid manages marvellously well in creating a novel that's rendered entirely in terms of the spoken word, and governed by the shape of what's evaded or not uttered" --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

"A fantastic piece of work, superbly considered and controlled, with a lovely stillness and wisdom at its heart"

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.