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...
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In 1968, Muneeza Shamsie married Syed Saleem Shamsie, a company executive, and they have two daughters, the novelist Kamila Shamsie, and the children's...
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Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie. It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims. The novel follows the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jackie Kay Blake Morrison Grace Nichols Philip Pullman Elif Shafak Kamila Shamsie Colm Tóibín Claire Tomalin Jenny Uglow Council Colin Chisholm, Hon....
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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...
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post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her influence. Attia was born in Lucknow into the...
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