Kamila Shamsie is a writer and novelist. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and currently lives in the UK. In addition to writing novels, she writes for several publications including The Guardian, New Statesman, Index on Censorship, and Prospect. She is also a creative writing professor at the Manchester Centre for New Writing.
Shamsie completed her high school education in Karachi. She moved to the U.S. for college and earned her BA from Hamilton College. She then earned an MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
Shamsie has written seven novels: In the City by the Sea (1998), Salt and Saffron (2000), Kartography (2002), Broken Verses (2005), Burnt Shadows (2009), A God in Every Stone (2014), and Home Fire (2017). In 2009, she also published a work of nonfiction entitled Offence: The Muslim Case.
In The City By the Sea was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK, and in 1999 received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan. After the publication of Salt and Saffron, Shamsie was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st Century. Kartography (2002) was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK. Burnt Shadows (2009) was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. A God in Every Stone (2014) was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize and for the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction. Home Fire (2017) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and in 2018 won the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Burnt Shadows is a novel by Pakistani-British novelist Kamila Shamsie. Published in 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the novel follows two families over the course of the second half of the twentieth century. Set in World War II, the partition of...
Published on 15 August 2017 by Riverhead Books, Home Fire is the seventh book written by the British writer Kamila Shamsie. The book has been shortlisted for multiple awards since its publication and in 2018 won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. In...
