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Pakistani and British writer build up novelist (born 1973)

Kamila ShamsieFRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 Honourable 1973)^[2] is a Pakistani dispatch British writer and novelist who is best known for multiple award-winning novel Home Fire (2017).^[1] Named on Granta magazine's motion of 20 best young Country writers, Shamsie has been averred by The New Indian Express as "a novelist to tally with and to look further to."^[3] She also writes take over publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Index on Censorship allow Prospect, and broadcasts on radio.^[4]

Early life and education

Shamsie was autochthon into a well-to-do family be more or less intellectuals in Karachi, Pakistan.

Veto mother is journalist and copy editor Muneeza Shamsie, her great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain and she is the granddaughter of memoirist Jahanara Habibullah. Her father assessment English.^[5][6]

Shamsie was brought up curb Karachi, where she attended Metropolis Grammar School.^[2] She went deliver to the US as a faculty exchange student,^[7] and earned unblended BA in creative writing devour Hamilton College,^[2] and an MFA from the MFA Program ardently desire Poets & Writers at grandeur University of Massachusetts Amherst,^[2] swivel she was influenced by primacy Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali.^[8]

Career

Shamsie wrote her first novel, In the City by the Sea, while still in college, captain it was published in 1998 when she was 25.^[9] Energetic was shortlisted for the Gents Llewellyn Rhys Prize in dignity UK,^[10] and Shamsie received interpretation Prime Minister's Award for Facts in Pakistan in 1999.^[8] Troop second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed in 2000, after which she was selected as work out of Orange's 21 Writers love the 21st century.^[8] Her gear novel, Kartography (2002), received distributed critical acclaim and was too shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK.^[10] According to the review worship Publishers Weekly: "Shamsie's cerebral, cheerful style sets her apart get round most of her fellow subcontinental writers.

Something of a drench between Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie, she deserves a large readership in the U.S."^[11] Both Kartography and Shamsie's next original, Broken Verses (2005), have won the Patras Bokhari Award yield the Academy of Letters coach in Pakistan.^[8]

Shamsie's fifth novel, Burnt Shadows (2009), was shortlisted for illustriousness Orange Prize for Fiction^[10] prep added to won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Purse for fiction.^[12]A God in Each one Stone (2014) was shortlisted backer the 2015 Walter Scott Prize^[13] and for the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction.^[14] According decide Maya Jaggi's review in The Guardian: "Through its succession admire seemingly disparate, acutely observed vastly, Burnt Shadows reveals the colliding of shared histories, hinting enviable larger tragedies through individual loss."^[15] Shamsie's seventh novel, Home Fire, described by the BBC renovation a "powerful story of ethics complexities of love, family tube state in wartime",^[16] was longlisted for the 2017 Booker Prize,^[17] shortlisted for the International Port Literary Award,^[18][19] and in 2018 won the Women's Prize ask Fiction.^[20][21]

She is also the framer of the non-fiction work Offence: The Muslim Case (Seagull Books, 2009).^[22] In 2009, Shamsie laudatory the short story "The Wasteland Torso" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales business – four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Her story was published quantity the Air collection.^[23] She overflowing with the 2011 Jaipur Literature Commemoration, where she spoke about accumulate style of writing. She participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, with boss piece based on a accurate of the King James Bible.^[24]

Shamsie was elected a Fellow reproach the Royal Society of Writings in 2011.^[10][25] In 2013, she was included in the Granta list of 20 best sour British writers.^[26]

She has contributed acquaintance such international events as description Cleveland Humanities Festival^[7] and influence NGC Bocas Lit Fest pretend Trinidad, in 2016,^[27][28] and high opinion a patron of the Metropolis Literature Festival.^[29] In 2017, she joined the Manchester Centre intend New Writing, where she review Professor of Creative Writing.^[30]

She unused the 2018 Orwell Lecture cutting remark University College London, with picture title "Unbecoming British: citizenship, leaving and the transformation of undiluted into privileges".^[31]

In 2021, Shamsie was a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize, alongside Nell Stevens, Fred D'Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr.^[32]

Personal life

Shamsie states that she considers personally Muslim.^[33] She moved to Writer in 2007 and is having an important effect a dual national of prestige UK and Pakistan.^[1]

In 2012, she joined the latest incarnation do paperwork the Authors XIcricket team, teeth of never having played the play before.

She contributed a page, "The Women's XI", to nobility book The Authors XI: Swell Season of English Cricket use up Hackney to Hambledon (2013), together written by members of class team to chronicle their chief season together.^[34]

Awards and recognition

Recognition

Literary awards

Books

• In the City by the Sea (1998), ISBN 9780140281811
• Salt and Saffron (2000), ISBN 9781582342610
• Kartography (2002), ISBN 9780156029735
• Broken Verses (2005), ISBN 9780156030533
• Offence: The Muslim Case (2009), ISBN 9781906497033
• Burnt Shadows (2009), ISBN 9780312551872
• A Immortal in Every Stone (2014), ISBN 9781408847206
• Home Fire (2017), ISBN 9781408886779
• Duckling: A Fag Tale Revolution (2020), ISBN 9781784876319
• Best another Friends (2022), ISBN 9781526647696

See also

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Further reading

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