Muneeza Shamsie
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Muneeza Shamsie (née Habibullah) is a Pakistani writer, literary columnist, and editor. She is daughter of Jahanara Habibullah (the author of a memoir, Zindagi Ki Yadein: Riyasat Rampur Ka Nawabi Daur[1][2]) and niece of Attia Hosain, noted English feminist and writer. Her daughter is the Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie[citation needed].
Life and career
Muneeza Shamsie was born in Lahore[citation needed], Pakistan and educated in England at the Wispers School[citation needed]. She is the daughter of the writer Jahanara Habibullah[citation needed].
Shamsie is a regular contributor to the Dawn newspaper, as well as the Herald and Newsline magazines on literary affairs. She is also on the editorial board of the Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies[citation needed].
Shamsie's most significant works are her compilations of the works of some Pakistani authors writing in English[citation needed]. The American edition of her third anthology And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women was published with an expanded introduction and new headwords by The Feminist Press at CUNY and won several awards, including the 2009 IPPY (Independent Publisher of the Year) Gold Award[3] and the 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of The Year Bronze Award – both for the best anthology by an independent publisher.
Books edited
- A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English (1997) ISBN 0-19-577784-0
- Leaving Home: Towards A New Millennium: A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers (2001) ISBN 0-19-579529-6
- And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2005) ISBN 81-88965-23-5
- And The World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2008) (US edition) ISBN 978-1-55861-580-9
