Moni Mohsin

Moni Mohsin was born in 1963 in Lahore, Pakistan. Since her father was from the landed gentry of Punjab and her mother from a business family in Lahore, she grew up between Lahore and Okara. Like her siblings before her, she left Pakistan at the age of sixteen to attend boarding school in England and proceeded to Cambridge to read Archaeology and Anthroplogy.

In 1986 she returned to a Pakistan. She spent the next two years working for an environmental agency, where she produced Pakistan’s first environmental news magazine, Natura. And then in 1988, when General Zia was assassinated and space for political discourse opened up once again, she moved to a new publishing venture, The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent weekly. She spent seven years there, rising eventually to the position of Features Editor.

She married in 1995 and moved back to England with her husband. Since then she has freelanced for a number of Pakistani magazines including The Friday Times, Libas and Zameen. She has also contributed short fiction to the creative writing issue of Wasafiri 2000 edited by Aamer Huussein and Bernadine Evaristo and an anthology on Lahore edited by Bapsi Sidhwa and published by Penguin India. She has also authored a travel book on Lahore published by the Guide Book Company and is currently in talks for the publication of her journalistic writings with Vanguard Books Pakistan and Penguin India. The End of Innocence is her first novel. She has two children and divides her time between Lahore and London.

Titles

Diary of a Social Butterfly (Random House India, 2009)

The End of Innocence  (Fig Tree, 2006)