Kamila Shamsie
| Kamila Naheed Shamsie[1] | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 13, 1973 Karachi, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Pakistani British[1] |
| Alma mater | Hamilton College, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Genre | Novels |
| Notable works | Author of In the City by the Sea (1998) (novel) |
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Kamila Naheed Shamsie (born 13 August 1973)[2] is a Pakistani "novelist" who writes in the English language.
Background
Shamsie is the daughter of journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie[citation needed]. She was brought up in Karachi[citation needed] and attended Karachi Grammar School[citation needed]. She has a BA in Creative Writing from Hamilton College[citation needed], and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst[citation needed], where she was influenced by the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. In 2007, she moved to London and is now a dual national of the UK and Pakistan.[1]
Career
Shamsie wrote her first novel, In The City by the Sea, while still at UMass, and it was published in 1998. It was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the UK,[3] and Shamsie received the Prime Minister's Award for Literature in Pakistan in 1999[citation needed]. Her second novel, Salt and Saffron, followed in 2000, after which she was selected as one of Orange's 21 Writers of the 21st century[citation needed]. Her third novel, Kartography, received widespread critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys award in the UK.[3] Both Kartography and her next novel, Broken Verses, have won the Patras Bokhari Award from the Academy of Letters in Pakistan[citation needed]. Her fifth novel Burnt Shadows was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.[3]
In 2009, Kamila Shamsie donated the short story "The Desert Torso" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project – four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the Air collection.[4] In 2010, Shamsie won an Award from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.[5] She attended the 2011 Jaipur Literature Festival, where she spoke about her style of writing. She participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, with a piece based on a book of the King James Bible.[6] In 2013 she was included in the Granta list of 20 best young British writers.[7] She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[3] A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the 2015 Walter Scott Prize.[8]
Books
- In the City by the Sea (1998), ISBN 0-14-028181-9
- Salt and Saffron (2000), ISBN 1-58234-261-X
- Kartography (2002), ISBN 0-15-602973-1
- Broken Verses (2005), ISBN 0-15-603053-5
- Offence : the Muslim case (2009). ISBN 1-906497-03-6
- Burnt Shadows (2009), ISBN 0-312-55187-8
- A God in Every Stone (2014), ISBN 978-1-4088-4720-6
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kamila Shamsie on applying for British Citizenship: 'I never felt safe'", The Guardian, 4 March 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2014
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- ↑ "The Desert Torso" – A short story from the OX-Tales series/
- ↑ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org
- ↑ Kamila Shamsie - "The Letter in response to Philemon", Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre.
- ↑ Best of Young British Novelists 4, Granta 123.
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External links
- Kamila Shamsie talks about Burnt Shadows on the BBC's World Book Club
- Kamila Shamsie at Bloomsbury Publishing
- Article in The Guardian on Kamila Shamsie
- "The Storytellers of Empire" in Guernica, February 2012
- Use British English from October 2012
- Use dmy dates from October 2012
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015
- Pakistani novelists
- Muhajir people
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Hamilton College (New York) alumni
- 21st-century women writers
- English-language writers from Pakistan
- Pakistani writers
- Karachi Grammar School alumni
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- Pakistani women writers
- Writers from Karachi
- Pakistani emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Women novelists
