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Mirza Waheed is Kashmiri novelist based in London.
His first novel, The Collaborator, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the Guardian First Book award
Waheed’s second novel, The Book of Gold Leaves, was published in 2014. A love story between a Sunni and a Shi’ite in trouble struck Kashmir in 1990’s.
His third novel, Tell Her Everything, was released in January 2019. It is the story of a father who is preparing to reveal his own unsavory past to the now-grown daughter that he sent away to boarding school as a small child.
He won the Hindu Prize for best fiction 2019 for his novel, Tell her everything.
The jury had this to say: ‘An extraordinary work of fiction whose complexity, depth and narrative mastery would be hard to match in contemporary world literature…A compelling novel, both a narrative tour de force and an exploration of a profound existential and moral conundrum.”
The Hindu Prize was instituted in 2010 to honour writers who have spent their lifetime mining the human spirit through their words and ideas. The prize is usually awarded at a ceremony during The Hindu’s annual literature festival Lit For Life. However the 2020 edition had to be cancelled due to a challenging environment.
In a tweet Mirza Waheed confirmed the news saying he will get the Prize by post.
