Kamila Shamsie FRSL (Urdu: کاملہ شمسی; born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel...

In 1968, Muneeza Shamsie married Syed Saleem Shamsie, a company executive, and they have two daughters, the novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the children's...

Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie. It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the...

Burnt Shadows is a 2009 novel by Kamila Shamsie. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction...

judges for the 2019 award reversed their decision to give the prize to Kamila Shamsie, after the German website Ruhrbarone pointed out her long-standing public...

entrepreneur Kamila Nasr, Canadian singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Kamila Novotná (born 2005), Slovak sport shooter Kamila Shamsie (born 1973)...

post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her influence. Attia was born in Lucknow into the...

Suhrawardy, Omar Tarin, Kaleem Omar, Raja Changez Sultan, Muneeza Shamsie, Kamila Shamsie, and others. Fiction from Pakistan began to receive recognition...

Jackie Kay Blake Morrison Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak Kamila Shamsie Colm Tóibín Claire Tomalin Jenny Uglow Council Colin Chisholm, Hon....

in the wake of her disappearance. In the words of Guardian reviewer Kamila Shamsie, "Danticat shows us a town scarred by violence, corruption, class disparities...

Kentucky to 1980s Nigeria". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2017. Kamila Shamsie's 'Home Fire' wins Women's Prize for Fiction[dead link]Washington Post...

everyone in Latin America searching for the missing loved one. In 2017 Kamila Shamsie published Home Fire, which transposes some of the moral and political...

000 authors and intellectuals, including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie, William Dalrymple as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah...

once I was told I really ought to meet [novelists] Mohsin Hamid or Kamila Shamsie. I’m not naive: liberal elites see race before class and are blind to...

Elia (poet, philosopher) Josh Malihabadi (poet, linguist, scholar) Kamila Shamsie (novelist, story writer) Khalique Ibrahim Khalique (journalist, poet...

World Book Club Christian Science Monitor - Yvonne Zipp The Guardian - Kamila Shamsie The Independent - David Dabydeen Independent on Sunday - Benedicte Page...

The prize jury included Salim Bachi, Krista Kaer, Patrick McCabe, Kamila Shamsie, Clive Sinclair and Eugene R. Sullivan. Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise...

England and her life before and after 9/11. Burnt Shadows (2009) by Kamila Shamsie Dead Air (2002) by Iain Banks. An early chapter is set in London on...

confusion, and bravado of homosexuality in a hostile environment." Author Kamila Shamsie wrote: "A mesmerizing novel of heartbreak, memory, and the ease of falling...

Hiroshima), Othman Puteh and Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, 1987 Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie, 2009 Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War, Susan Southard, 2015 Hiroshima...

University. Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2015-05-07. "Kamila Shamsie". Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. "Pakistani actors...

literary reportage on its human toll". and praised in the Guardian by Kamila Shamsie for the way it brought the conflict "into the lives of Kashmiris". The...

1000 authors and intellectuals, including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie, William Dalrymple as well as Nobel Prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah...

World Aldous Huxley 1932 Politics, Power & Protest British Home Fire Kamila Shamsie 2017 Politics, Power & Protest British Lord of the Flies William Golding...

Marcus Berkmann 2018 A Clear Blue Sky Jonny Bairstow and Duncan Hamilton Kamila Shamsie 2019 Steve Smith's Men Geoff Lemon Tanya Aldred 2020 Cricket 2.0: Inside...

Israel through economic means. Flood, Allison (19 September 2019). "Kamila Shamsie's book award withdrawn over her part in Israel boycott". The Guardian...

Estate Arundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Hamish Hamilton Kamila Shamsie Home Fire Bloomsbury Zadie Smith Swing Time Hamish Hamilton Colson Whitehead...

(a former professional cricketer who played for England). Novelist Kamila Shamsie, the only woman on the team, played during an Authors XI game against...

(chosen decade in parentheses): Robert McCrum (1970s) Lemn Sissay (1980s) Kamila Shamsie (1990s) Simon Mayo (2000s) Hollie McNish (2010s) The shortlisted works...

1,000 authors and publishers – including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie and William Dalrymple, as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah...