Daniyal Mueenuddin is a Pakistani-American writer of English fiction, born in Los Angeles and raised in Pakistan before moving to the United States at thirteen. He studied and worked as a lawyer before devoting himself to writing. His short story collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders won The Story Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He also wrote This Is Where the Serpent Lives, a book set in contemporary Pakistan that follows a cast of characters whose lives become entangled through violence and power, and he now divides his time between Oslo and his farm in Pakistan.
