Mohammed Hanif (born November 1964 in Okara, Pakistan) is a Pakistani writer

and journalist.

He was born in Okara. He graduated from Pakistan Air Force Academy as a pilot
officer, but subsequently left to pursue a career in journalism.[1] He initially worked
for Newsline and wrote for The Washington Post and India Today. He is a
graduate of the University of East Anglia.[2] In 1996, he moved to London to work
for the BBC. Later, he became the head of the BBC's Urdu service in London.[2] He
moved back to Pakistan in 2008.[3]..

His first novel A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) was shortlisted for the 2008
Guardian First Book Award[4] and longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.[5] It
won the 2009 Commonwealth Book Prize in the Best First Book category[6] and
the 2008 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize.[7]

Hanif has also written for the stage and screen, including a feature film, The Long
Night (2002),[8] a BBC radio play, What Now, Now That We Are Dead?, and the
stage play The Dictator's Wife (2008).[9] His second novel, Our Lady of Alice
Bhatti, was published in 2011.[10] It was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book
Prize (2012),[11] and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2013).[12]

Hanif's style has often been compared with that of author Salman Rushdie. But
Hanif disagrees. Even though he says that he enjoys reading Rushdie's books, he
would not want to suffer the same fate as Rushdie did.[13]

Films

 The Long Night (Script) (2002)

Novels

 A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008)

 Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2011)
 The Baloch who is not missing and others who are (2013)

Plays

 What Now, Now That We Are Dead? (radio play)

 The Dictator's Wife (2008)
Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway. In 1862, he was exiled to Italy, where he
wrote the tragedy Brand. In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous
works: the play A Doll's House. In 1890, he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most
notorious characters. By 1891, Ibsen had returned to Norway a literary hero. He died on May 23, 1906,
in Oslo, Norway.