30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

HM Naqvi

HM Naqvi is Karachi-based award-winning novelist. His debut, Home Boy, was hailed as a ‘remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs’ by The New York Times and awarded the DSC Prize in 2011. His second novel, The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack, has been called a ‘delirious love letter to Karachi’ by the Wall Street Journal. Naqvi has worked in banking, taught at BU and has been working on his third novel through the surges.

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