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Imran Mahmood is a British novelist who is also a London barrister. His first novel You Don't Know Me (Penguin, 2017), which was shortlisted for 2018's Glass Bell Award, will be dramatised for the BBC in 2020.

Biography
Mahmood, whose parents are first-generation immigrants from Pakistan, was born in Liverpool in 1969. Growing up in Liverpool, he attended comprehensive schools.

After earning his undergraduate degree in 1990 at Kingston University in London, he studied for the bar at the Inns of Court. He is now a barrister, with chambers in Middle Temple, specializing in criminal law and in common law.

In Mahmood's first novel, You Don't Know Me, a young man on trial for murder urgently tells his own story to a jury. According to Mahmood, the novel was inspired by young men he defended. The Guardian listed it as one of the best crime novels of 2017, calling it "an original take on a courtroom drama that puts the reader in the position of the jury...a gripping, vivid depiction of London’s gang culture with an authentic feel." The BBC is adapting a four-part dramatisation, to be directed by Sarmad Masud.

Mahmood's second book, a thriller set in Mayfair, has been purchased by Raven Books, the new crime imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

Categories
Living people, British barristers, Alumni of Kingston University barristers, British novelists, people from Liverpool, 1969 births, British people of Pakistani descent, British Asian writers, 21st-century British novelists British male novelists.