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DAZED & CONFUSED

Aesop selects ‘A Dutiful Boy’ for its Queer Library

mr. porter
Essential beach reads

GAY TIMES
10 south Asian icons you should know about

THE GUARDIAN
A Dutiful Boy stave’s off competition from Booker prize winner to win the Polari Prize

RADIO 4
Mohsin appears on Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’

ATTITUDE
Mohsin named as LGBTQ Trailblazer

RTÉ
Ireland’s RTE names ‘A Dutiful Boy’ one of the ten books everyone should read during Pride month

BRITS IN THE BIG APPLE
Mohsin interviewed for the UK Foreign Office’s ‘Brits in the Big Apple’ podcast
 
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Why Claiming British Identity Is Complicated

LAMDA LITERARY awards

A Dutiful Boy wins a LAMDA Literary award


ANTHEMS PODCAST
Mohsins musings on the word 'Fear'


PENGUIN
Books that can help improve your mental health


PINK NEWS
Discussion on Mohsins appearance on the Jeremy Vine show


MENKIND PODCAST
Mohsins appearance with Michael Chakraverty and Mark Watson

BBC podcast
For aspiring young lawyers


PENGUIN
14 Books on Mental Health


The GUARDIAN
Best paperbacks out this month


BUSTLE
Books for Pride


The Telegraph
“Poignant, funny, and searingly beautiful”


Brown Girl Mag
"Zaidi’s immersive writing style was addictive"


PINK NEWS

Author shares heartbreaking story of coming out as gay and Muslim:
‘My father asked a witch doctor to cure me’
 
 Lambda Literary Awards
A Dutiful Boy is shortlisted

MONOCLE
Mohsin talks about World Book Night
 
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
An honest picture of growing up gay and Muslim in twenty-first-century Britain

VOGUE ESPANA
Los 4 libros LGTB+ que me ayudaron a aceptar mi sexualidad
 
VOGUE
"Raw, honest...so vivid it feels almost tangible"

DAWN
Book Review

NATIONAL PORTRAIT gallery
Looking to the collection with Mohsin Zaidi

GAY TIMES
Iconic books you need to add to your reading list

COUNSEL
Mohsin writes about mental health during lockdown
 
Attitude
Meet the trailblazers changing the world today

Mr Porter
A Mental Health Reading List

Attitude
20 Best LGBTQ books of 2020

World Book Night
Selects 'A Dutiful Boy'

THE LAWYER
Mohsin named on it's list of Hot 100 

The Guardian
Best memoirs of 2020

GQ
Best books of 2020

New Statesman
Books of the Year

Penguin
To fix the future, we need a school curriculum that accurately reflects the past

Bustle
What Is Lost When Universities Go Virtual

Bad Form
Book Review

I News Interview
Young people should not feel suicidal for the way they were born

Autumn Essentials
Keeley Hawes in Red Magazine

On My Radar
Russell Tovey’s cultural highlights

The Irish News
Book Review

Daily Mail
Racism in LGBT+ community made British Muslim writer wish he was straight

How to Fail With Elizabeth Day
Podcast

The Guardian
A Dutiful Boy Review - "Utterly Compelling"

Bustle
Two Months On, What’s Clear Is That A Black Square Won’t Get Us There

CNN Style
A first-time author writes about class and clothing

Penguin VINTAGE Podcast
Growing up gay & Muslim

Sky News Interview
Fighting race, religion and class to find acceptance as a gay Muslim man in modern Britain

Another Man
A Dutiful Boy is a Moving Memoir about growing up gay and Muslim

Suzi Ruffell's 'OUT'
Podcast

BBC Radio London
Interview by Robert Elms

Tatler
Mohsin Zaidi’s memoir of a gay Muslim’s journey to acceptance is a must-read

The Times
Mohsin Zaidi on being gay and Muslim in modern Britain

The Times
The day I told my Muslim father I was gay (Book Extract)

In Conversation with Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
How to Embrace Your Intersectionality (Youtube Interview)

Foyles
A Q&A with Mohsin Zaidi

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