H. M. Naqvi (born 1973)[1] is a Pakistani novelist (currently based in Karachi) who is the author of Home Boy, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
[5] H. M. Naqvi's debut novel Home Boy was first published in the United States in September 2009 by the Crown Books division of Random House to acclaim.
[citation needed] When Home Boy was published in India in January 2010 by HarperCollins, it hit the top ten fiction best-seller list.
[7] According to the Indian Express, the novel is "culturally au courant and with an eye for the absurd – a cross between early Jay McInerney and Gary Shteyngart, with subcontinental seasoning.
He has read it at The Second Floor [T2F], Khas Gallery, Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology [SZABIST] and at the Indus Valley School of Arts.